| Title: |
MOSAIC at the ELT: a unique instrument for the largest ground-based telescope |
| Authors: |
Pello, Roser; Puech, Mathieu; Prieto, Éric; Rodrigues, Myriam; Sanchez-Janssen, Ruben; Dalton, Gavin, B; Ducret, Franck; El Hadi, Kacem; García-Vargas, Marisa, L; Lynn, Jeff; Bharmal, Nazim, A; Chapuis, Diane; Dupieux, Michel; Hottier, Clément; Larrieu, Marie; Martin, Laurent; Mohamed, Meghna; Morris, Tim; Pérez, Ana; Seifert, Walter; Xu, Wenli; Morris, Simon; Kaper, Lex; Gallego, Jesus; Afonso, Jose; Barbuy, Beatriz; Contini, Thierry; Finoguenov, Alexis; Kassin, Susan; Miller, Christopher; Ostlin, Göran; Pentericci, Laura; Schaerer, Daniel; Steinmetz, Matthias; Ziegler, Bodo; Araujo, Ricardo; Brynnel, Joar; Castilho, Bruno; Conselice, Christopher, J; Cvetojevic, Nick; Davison, Christopher; Dejonghe, Julien; Dessauges-Zavadsky, Mirka; Dohlen, Kjetil; Ferreira, Décio; Gil de Paz, Armando; Gonçalves, Thiago, S; Guinouard, Isabelle; Hayes, Matthew, J; Ives, Derek; Janssen, Annemieke; Kehrig, Carol; Kelz, Andreas; Krajnović, Davor; Lanotte, Audrey, A; Laporte, Nicolas; Laporte, Philippe; Larsen, Soren; Lemasle, Bertran; Lewis, Ian; Li, Jiang-Tao; Pancino, Elena; Pieri, Matthew, M; Surace, Christian; Thurneysen, Markus; Vergani, Susanna; Wildi, François; Alvarez Moreno, Fernando; Artan, Raziye; Beaulieu, Mathilde; Besada, Eva; Bik, Arjan; Bond, Charlotte; Bouri, Mohamed; Boy, Jérémie; Bramall, David; Brands, Sarah; Braulio, Antonio; Butterley, Tim; Cabello, Cristina; Calero de Ory, Marina; Calvo, Rocio; Castillo Morales, Africa; Challita, Zalpha; Chittik, Stephen; Curto Maldonado, Andrés; de Frontat, Fatima; Dijkstra, Elfi; Elswijk, Eddy; Fasola, Gilles; Feiz, Carmen; Fialho, Fabio; Floriot, Johan; Franzetti, Paolo; Fumana, Marco; Gabarra, Luis; Garcia, Lia; Gargiulo, Adriana; Gaudemard, Julien; Giannone, Domenico; Gill, Polly; Gomez-Gutierrez, Alicia; Gouvret, Carole; Guenther, Alan; Harvey, Douglas; Ibanez, José Miguel; Iglesias, Jorge; Ivanisenko, Yevgeniy; Kunst, Peter; Kwast, Sander; Leschinski, Kieran; Licausi, Gianluca; Ligori, Sebastiano; Lopez Orozco, Juan Antonio; Lowe, Adam; Macintosh, Mike; Magan, Héctor; Maldonado, Manuel; Marquart, Thomas; Martins, Lucimara; Melara, Marisole; Melinder, Jens; Molema, Jeannet; Montgomery, David; Morales, Maria; Najarro, Francisco; Nardetto, Nicolas; Navarro, Ramon; Ottomani, Antoine; Pamplona, Tony; Pannetier, Cyril; Parr-Burman, Phil; Pascual, Sergio; Penataro, Maria; Perez Grande, Isabel; Peterzon, Jan Rinze; Piqueras, Javier; Piskunov, Nicolai; Rodriguez Cardoso, Ramon; Rodriguez Venzal, Sergio; Romp, Rick; Rostami, Hossein; Royer, Frédéric; Sablowski, Daniel; Sanchez, Ainhoa; Sanchez Blanco, Ernesto; Schalling, Ellen; Schmoll, Jurgen; Schwartz, Noah; Stephan, Jay; Taburet, Sylvestre; Terrett, David; Torralbo, Ignacio; Tromp, Niels; Veredas, Gerardo; Yang, Yanbin; York, Alec; Zeilinger, Werner |
| Contributors: |
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM); Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Observatoire de Paris; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL); Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI); Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP); Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3); Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE); Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur; Université Côte d'Azur (UniCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UniCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Julia J. Bryant; Kentaro Motohara; Joël R. D. Vernet; ANR-21-ESRE-0008,F-CELT,Contribution Française à l'instrumentation de l'Extremely Large Telescope(2021) |
| Source: |
Proceedings of SPIE ; Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X ; https://hal.science/hal-04976449 ; Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X, Jun 2024, Yokohama, Japan. pp.1309615, ⟨10.1117/12.3019047⟩ |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; SPIE |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier: HAL-UPS |
| Subject Terms: |
Spectroscopy; multi-messenger astronomy; stellar populations; intergalactic medium; reionisation; galaxies; ELT; fiber spectrographs; multi-object spectroscopy; [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM] |
| Subject Geographic: |
Yokohama; Japan |
| Description: |
International audience ; MOSAIC is the Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS) for the 39m Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), with unique capabilities in terms of multiplex, wavelength coverage and spectral resolution. It is a versatile multi-object spectrograph working in both the Visible and NIR domains, designed to cover the largest possible area (∼40 arcmin 2 ) on the focal plane, and optimized to achieve the best possible signal-to-noise ratio on the faintest sources, from stars in our Galaxy to galaxies at the epoch of the reionization. In this paper we describe the main characteristics of the instrument, including its expected performance in the different observing modes. The status of the project will be briefly presented, together with the positioning of the instrument in the landscape of the ELT instrumentation. We also review the main expected scientific contributions of MOSAIC, focusing on the synergies between this instrument and other major ground-based and space facilities. |
| Document Type: |
conference object |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1117/12.3019047 |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-04976449; https://hal.science/hal-04976449v1/document; https://hal.science/hal-04976449v1/file/Pello_et_al_2024_SPIE_1309615.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019047 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.D66FD7B9 |
| Database: |
BASE |