Multi-object spectroscopy with the European ELT: scientific synergies between EAGLE and EVE

Authors
  • C.J. Evans
  • B. Barbuy
  • P. Bonifacio
  • F. Chemla
  • J.-G. Cuby
  • G.B. Dalton
  • B. Davies
  • K. Disseau
  • K. Dohlen
  • H. Flores
  • E. Gendron
  • I. Guinouard
  • F. Hammer
  • P. Hastings
  • D. Horville
  • P. Jagourel
  • L. Kaper
  • P. Laporte
  • D. Lee
  • S.L. Morris
  • T. Morris
  • R. Myers
  • R. Navarro
  • P. Parr-Burman
  • P. Petitjean
  • M. Puech
  • E. Rollinde
  • G. Rousset
  • H. Schnetler
  • N. Welikala
  • M. Wells
  • Y. Yang
Publication date 2012
Host editors
  • I.S. McLean
  • S.K. Ramsay
  • H. Takami
Book title Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
Book subtitle 1-6 July 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
  • 9780819491473
Series Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering
Event Ground-based and airborne instrumentation for astronomy IV
Article number 84467K
Volume | Issue number 5
Number of pages 14
Publisher Bellingham, WA: SPIE
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract
The EAGLE and EVE Phase A studies for instruments for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) originated from related top-level scientific questions, but employed different (yet complementary) methods to deliver the required observations. We re-examine the motivations for a multi-object spectrograph (MOS) on the E-ELT and present a unified set of requirements for a versatile instrument. Such a MOS would exploit the excellent spatial resolution in the near-infrared envisaged for EAGLE, combined with aspects of the spectral coverage and large multiplex of EVE. We briefly discuss the top-level systems which could satisfy these requirements in a single instrument at one of the Nasmyth foci of the E-ELT.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924819
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