MANIFEST instrument concept and related technologies

Michael Goodwin; Jurek Brzeski; Scott Case; Matthew Colless; Tony Farrell; Luke Gers; James Gilbert; Jeroen Heijmans; Andrew Hopkins; Jon Lawrence; Stan Miziarski; Guy Monnet; Rolf Muller; Will Saunders; Greg Smith; Julia Tims; Lew Waller

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MANIFEST instrument concept and related technologies

Michael Goodwin^*, Jurek Brzeski, Scott Case, Matthew Colless, Tony Farrell, Luke Gers, James Gilbert, Jeroen Heijmans, Andrew Hopkins, Jon Lawrence, Stan Miziarski, Guy Monnet, Rolf Muller, Will Saunders, Greg Smith, Julia Tims, Lew Waller

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Abstract

The Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) has recently completed a feasibility study for a fiber-positioner facility proposed for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), called MANIFEST (the Many Instrument Fiber System). The MANIFEST facility takes full advantage of the wide-field focal plane to efficiently feed a number of focal instruments. It is a simple, flexible and modular design, based on the AAO's experience and R&D with starbugs, robotic positioners, and related fiber technologies for astronomical instrumentation. Up to 2000 individually deployable fiber units are envisaged, with a wide variety of aperture types (single-aperture, image- or pupil-slicing, IFU). MANIFEST allows (a) full use of the GMT's 20' field-of-view, (b) a multiplexed IFU capability, (c) greatly increased spectral resolution via image-slicing, (d) the possibility of OH-suppression in the near-infrared. It is intended that MANIFEST will form part of the GMT facility itself, available to any instrument able to make use of it. In this paper, we report on the recent progress involving the science goals, instrument concept, related technologies and performances.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
Editors	Ian S. McLean, Suzanne K. Ramsay, Hideki Takami
Place of Publication	Bellingham, Washington
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	1-15
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	9780819491473
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925125
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 1 Jul 2012 → 6 Jul 2012

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE
Publisher	SPIE
Volume	8446
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	1/07/12 → 6/07/12

Keywords

Extremely large telescopes
Fiber positioners
OH suppression
Starbugs

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Goodwin, M., Brzeski, J., Case, S., Colless, M., Farrell, T., Gers, L., Gilbert, J., Heijmans, J., Hopkins, A., Lawrence, J., Miziarski, S., Monnet, G., Muller, R., Saunders, W., Smith, G., Tims, J., & Waller, L. (2012). MANIFEST instrument concept and related technologies. In I. S. McLean, S. K. Ramsay, & H. Takami (Eds.), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV (pp. 1-15). [84467I] (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 8446). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925125

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MANIFEST instrument concept and related technologies. / Goodwin, Michael; Brzeski, Jurek; Case, Scott et al.
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. ed. / Ian S. McLean; Suzanne K. Ramsay; Hideki Takami. Bellingham, Washington: SPIE, 2012. p. 1-15 84467I (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 8446).

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