TY - GEN
T1 - Instrumentation progress at the Giant Magellan Telescope project
AU - Jacoby, George H.
AU - Bernstein, R.
AU - Bouchez, A.
AU - Colless, M.
AU - Crane, J.
AU - DePoy, D.
AU - Espeland, B.
AU - Hare, T.
AU - Jaffe, D.
AU - Lawrence, J.
AU - Marshall, J.
AU - McGregor, P.
AU - Shectman, S.
AU - Sharp, R.
AU - Szentgyorgyi, A.
AU - Uomoto, A.
AU - Walls, B.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Instrument development for the 24m Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is described: current activities, progress, status, and schedule. One instrument team has completed its preliminary design and is currently beginning its final design (GCLEF, an optical 350-950 nm, high-resolution and precision radial velocity echelle spectrograph). A second instrument team is in its conceptual design phase (GMACS, an optical 350-950 nm, medium resolution, 6-10 arcmin field, multi-object spectrograph). A third instrument team is midway through its preliminary design phase (GMTIFS, a near-IR YJHK diffraction-limited imager/integral-field-spectrograph), focused on risk reduction prototyping and design optimization. A fourth instrument team is currently fabricating the 5 silicon immersion gratings needed to begin its preliminary design phase (GMTNIRS, a simultaneous JHKLM high-resolution, AO-fed, echelle spectrograph). And, another instrument team is focusing on technical development and prototyping (MANIFEST, a facility robotic, multifiber feed, with a 20 arcmin field of view). In addition, a medium-field (6 arcmin, 0.06 arcsec/pix) optical imager will support telescope and AO commissioning activities, and will excel at narrow-band imaging. In the spirit of advancing synergies with other groups, the challenges of running an ELT instrument program and opportunities for cross-ELT collaborations are discussed.
AB - Instrument development for the 24m Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is described: current activities, progress, status, and schedule. One instrument team has completed its preliminary design and is currently beginning its final design (GCLEF, an optical 350-950 nm, high-resolution and precision radial velocity echelle spectrograph). A second instrument team is in its conceptual design phase (GMACS, an optical 350-950 nm, medium resolution, 6-10 arcmin field, multi-object spectrograph). A third instrument team is midway through its preliminary design phase (GMTIFS, a near-IR YJHK diffraction-limited imager/integral-field-spectrograph), focused on risk reduction prototyping and design optimization. A fourth instrument team is currently fabricating the 5 silicon immersion gratings needed to begin its preliminary design phase (GMTNIRS, a simultaneous JHKLM high-resolution, AO-fed, echelle spectrograph). And, another instrument team is focusing on technical development and prototyping (MANIFEST, a facility robotic, multifiber feed, with a 20 arcmin field of view). In addition, a medium-field (6 arcmin, 0.06 arcsec/pix) optical imager will support telescope and AO commissioning activities, and will excel at narrow-band imaging. In the spirit of advancing synergies with other groups, the challenges of running an ELT instrument program and opportunities for cross-ELT collaborations are discussed.
KW - GMT
KW - ELT
KW - spectrograph
KW - integral-field spectrograph
KW - multi-object spectrograph
KW - optical instruments
KW - infrared instruments
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85007206689&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1117/12.2232809
DO - 10.1117/12.2232809
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85007206689
SN - 9781510601956
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE
SP - 99081U-1-99081U-15
BT - Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI
A2 - Evans, Christopher J.
A2 - Simard, Luc
A2 - Takami, Hideki
PB - SPIE
CY - Bellingham, Washington
T2 - Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI
Y2 - 26 June 2016 through 30 June 2016
ER -