MAVIS: imager and spectrograph

Simon Ellis; Anthony Horton; Christian Schwab; Timothy Chin; Robert Content; Nuwanthika Fernando; Nuria Lorente; Richard McDermid; Mahesh Mohanan; Helen McGregor; Jacob Pember; David Robertson; Scott Smedley; Will Saunders; Lew Waller; Ross Zhelem; Jessica Zheng; Johan Kosmalski; Giovanni Cresci; Trevor Mendel; Andrea Bianco; David Brodrick; Jennifer Burgess; Dionne Haynes; Davide Greggio; Francois Rigaut; Alessio Zanutta

doi:10.1117/12.2629238

MAVIS: imager and spectrograph

Simon Ellis^*, Anthony Horton, Christian Schwab, Timothy Chin, Robert Content, Nuwanthika Fernando, Nuria Lorente, Richard McDermid, Mahesh Mohanan, Helen McGregor, Jacob Pember, David Robertson, Scott Smedley, Will Saunders, Lew Waller, Ross Zhelem, Jessica Zheng, Johan Kosmalski, Giovanni Cresci, Trevor MendelAndrea Bianco, David Brodrick, Jennifer Burgess, Dionne Haynes, Davide Greggio, Francois Rigaut, Alessio Zanutta

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MAVIS is the world's first facility-grade visible MCAO instrument, currently under development for the VLT. The AO system will feed an imager and an integral field spectrograph, with 50% sky coverage at the Galactic pole. MAVIS has a unique combination of angular resolution and sensitivity at visible wavelengths, and is highly complementary to both JWST and ELTs. We describe both instruments in detail and the broad range of science cases enabled by them. The imager will be diffraction-limited in V, with 7.36 mas per pixel covering a 30" FOV. A set of 5 broad-band and 21 narrow-band filters will provide imaging from u' to z'. The spectrograph uses an advanced image slicer with a selectable spatial sampling of 25 or 50 mas to provide integral field spectroscopy over a FOV of 2.5"x3.6", or 5"x7.2". The spectrograph has two identical arms each covering half the FOV. Four interchangeable grisms allow spectroscopy with R = 4, 000 to R = 15, 000, from 370 - 950 nm.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX
Editors	Christopher J. Evans, Julia J. Bryant, Kentaro Motohara
Place of Publication	Washington, DC
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	1-13
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510653504
ISBN (Print)	9781510653498
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629238
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	Conference on Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX - Montreal, Canada Duration: 17 Jul 2022 → 22 Jul 2022

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE
Publisher	SPIE
Volume	12184
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

Conference

Conference	Conference on Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	17/07/22 → 22/07/22

Keywords

Multi-conjugate adaptive optics
Imagers
Integral field spectrographs
Spectrographs
Adaptive optics
Image slicers

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Ellis, S., Horton, A., Schwab, C., Chin, T., Content, R., Fernando, N., Lorente, N., McDermid, R., Mohanan, M., McGregor, H., Pember, J., Robertson, D., Smedley, S., Saunders, W., Waller, L., Zhelem, R., Zheng, J., Kosmalski, J., Cresci, G., ... Zanutta, A. (2022). MAVIS: imager and spectrograph. In C. J. Evans, J. J. Bryant, & K. Motohara (Eds.), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX (pp. 1-13). [1218409] (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 12184). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629238

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Ellis, S , Horton, A , Schwab, C, Chin, T, Content, R, Fernando, N, Lorente, N , McDermid, R, Mohanan, M, McGregor, H, Pember, J, Robertson, D, Smedley, S, Saunders, W, Waller, L, Zhelem, R, Zheng, J, Kosmalski, J, Cresci, G, Mendel, T, Bianco, A, Brodrick, D, Burgess, J, Haynes, D, Greggio, D, Rigaut, F & Zanutta, A 2022, MAVIS: imager and spectrograph. in CJ Evans, JJ Bryant & K Motohara (eds), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX., 1218409, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 12184, SPIE, Washington, DC, pp. 1-13, Conference on Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, Montreal, Canada, 17/07/22. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629238

MAVIS: imager and spectrograph. / Ellis, Simon ; Horton, Anthony ; Schwab, Christian et al.
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX. ed. / Christopher J. Evans; Julia J. Bryant; Kentaro Motohara. Washington, DC: SPIE, 2022. p. 1-13 1218409 (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 12184).

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