@inproceedings{e69d7edde2bc4e76b6f4ee95dbdf010e,
title = "Panopticon*: a telescope for our times",
abstract = "We present a design for a wide-field spectroscopic telescope. The only large powered mirror is spherical, the resulting spherical aberration is corrected for each target separately, giving exceptional image quality. The telescope is a transit design, but still allows all-sky coverage. Three simultaneous modes are proposed: (a) natural seeing multi-object spectroscopy with 12m aperture over 3° FoV with ~25,000 targets; (b) multi-object AO with 12m aperture over 3° FoV with ~100 AO-corrected Integral Field Units each with 4” FoV; (c) ground layer AO-corrected integral field spectroscopy with 15m aperture and 13' FoV. Such a telescope would be uniquely powerful for large-area follow-up of imaging surveys; in each mode, the AOmega and survey speed exceed all existing facilities combined. The expected cost of this design is relatively modest, much closer to $500M than $1000M.",
keywords = "adaptive optics, ground-layer adaptive optics, integral field spectroscopy, integral field unit, multi-object adaptive optics, multi-object spectroscopy, wide-field spectroscopy, Wide-field telescope",
author = "Will Saunders and Timothy Chin and Michael Goodwin",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1117/12.3023792",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781510675117",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
pages = "130943A--1--130943A--10",
editor = "Marshall, {Heather K.} and Jason Spyromilio and Tomonori Usuda",
booktitle = "Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X",
address = "United States",
note = "Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes X 2024 ; Conference date: 16-06-2024 Through 21-06-2024",
}