Wide-field multi-object spectroscopy with MANIFEST
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2018
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Lawrence, Jon
Ben-Ami, Sagi
Brown, David
Brown, Rebecca
Case, Scott
Chin, Timothy
Colless, Matthew
Contos, Adam
DePoy, Darren
Evans, Ian
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SPIE
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MANIFEST is a multi-object fibre facility for the Giant Magellan Telescope that uses 'Starbug' robots to accurately position fibre units across the telescope's focal plane. MANIFEST, when coupled to the telescope's planned seeinglimited instruments, offers access to larger fields of view; higher multiplex gains; versatile focal plane reformatting of the focal plane via integral-field-units; image-slicers; and in some cases higher spatial and spectral resolution. The TAIPAN instrument on the UK Schmidt Telescope is now close to science verification which will demonstrate the feasibility of the Starbug concept. We are now moving into the conceptual development phase for MANIFEST, with a focus on developing interfaces for the telescope and for the instruments.
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Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
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