One of the highlights of the European ELT Science Case book is the study of resolved stellar populations, potentially out to the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. A European ELT would enable such studies in a wide range of unexplored distant environments, in terms of both galaxy morphology and metallicity. As part of a small study, a revised science case has been used to shape the conceptual design of a multi-object, multi-field spectrometer and imager (MOMSI). Here we present an overview of some key science drivers, and how to achieve these with elements such as multiplex, AO-correction, pick-off technology and spectral resolution.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0605484,
title = {A multi-object, multi-field spectrometer and imager for a European ELT},
author = {Chris Evans and Colin Cunningham and Eli Atad-Ettedgui and Jeremy Allington-Smith and Francois Assemat and Gavin Dalton and Peter Hastings and Timothy Hawarden and Isobel Hook and Rob Ivison and Simon Morris and Suzanne Ramsay Howat and Mel Strachan and Stephen Todd},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0605484},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, 8 figures, to be published in Proc. SPIE 6269, Ground-based & Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy