TY - GEN
T1 - MANIFEST/GMT science overview
T2 - Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX 2022
AU - Zafar, Tayyaba
AU - Lawrence, Jon
AU - Zheng, Jessica
AU - Adams, David
AU - Hartmann, Vitor N.
AU - Lacombe, Celestina
AU - Goodwin, Michael
AU - Lorente, Nuria
AU - O’Brien, Ellie
AU - Saunders, Will
AU - McGregor, Helen
AU - Waller, Lew
AU - Kunwar, Nirmala
AU - Mailvaganam, Anilkumar
AU - Faes, Daniel M.
AU - Marshall, Jennifer
AU - DePoy, Darren L.
AU - Ji, Alexander
AU - Zaritsky, Dennis
AU - Papovich, Casey
AU - Finkelstein, Steven L.
AU - Szentgyorgyi, Andrew
AU - Overzier, Roderik A.
AU - Kuehn, Kyler
AU - Cortese, Luca
AU - Croom, Scott
AU - Martell, Sarah
AU - Colless, Matthew
AU - Hopkins, Andrew M.
AU - Arnaboldi, Magda
AU - Péroux, Céline
AU - Johnson, Christian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 SPIE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The Many Instrument Fiber System (MANIFEST) is a facility fiber system for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). MANIFEST will be capable of feeding current and upcoming GMT instruments light from the telescopes full 20-arcmin field of view. The MANIFEST concept uses “Starbugs” – self-motile fiber heads deployed on a glass plate. MANIFEST will enhance the capabilities of different optical and near-infrared spectrographs at the GMT by feeding fibres and providing simultaneous observations. We have so far developed 15 science cases for MANIFEST which are listed under five broad science themes. Many science cases from galactic surveys, nearby galaxy surveys, intergalactic medium tomography, and spatially resolved studies of distant universe are of interest. These science cases drive the instrument requirements, modes of observations, and operation conditions for MANIFEST. Defined from the science cases, MANIFEST offers nine different modes of observations including high multiplexing, multiple and high sensitivity integral-field spectroscopy, polarimetry, and near-infrared spectroscopy. We discuss in this paper the latest developments of GMT/MANIFEST.
AB - The Many Instrument Fiber System (MANIFEST) is a facility fiber system for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). MANIFEST will be capable of feeding current and upcoming GMT instruments light from the telescopes full 20-arcmin field of view. The MANIFEST concept uses “Starbugs” – self-motile fiber heads deployed on a glass plate. MANIFEST will enhance the capabilities of different optical and near-infrared spectrographs at the GMT by feeding fibres and providing simultaneous observations. We have so far developed 15 science cases for MANIFEST which are listed under five broad science themes. Many science cases from galactic surveys, nearby galaxy surveys, intergalactic medium tomography, and spatially resolved studies of distant universe are of interest. These science cases drive the instrument requirements, modes of observations, and operation conditions for MANIFEST. Defined from the science cases, MANIFEST offers nine different modes of observations including high multiplexing, multiple and high sensitivity integral-field spectroscopy, polarimetry, and near-infrared spectroscopy. We discuss in this paper the latest developments of GMT/MANIFEST.
KW - Extremely Large Telescopes
KW - Giant Magellan Telescope
KW - MANIFEST
KW - MANIFEST Science
KW - Many Instruments Fiber System
KW - integral-field spectroscopy
KW - multiplexing
KW - optical instruments
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2628142
DO - 10.1117/12.2628142
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85140082531
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX
A2 - Evans, Christopher J.
A2 - Bryant, Julia J.
A2 - Motohara, Kentaro
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 17 July 2022 through 22 July 2022
ER -