EAGLE is a Phase A study of a multi-IFU, near-IR spectrometer for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). The design employs wide-field adaptive optics to deliver excellent image quality across a large (38.5 arcmin sq.) field. When combined with the light grasp of the E-ELT, EAGLE will be a unique and efficient facility for spatially-resolved, spectroscopic surveys of high-redshift galaxies and resolved stellar populations. Following a brief overview of the science case, here we summarise the functional and performance requirements that flow-down from it, provide illustrative performances from simulated observations, and highlight the strong synergies with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA).
@article{arxiv.1007.1586,
title = {Science Requirements and Performances for EAGLE for the E-ELT},
author = {C. J. Evans and M. D. Lehnert and J. -G. Cuby and S. L. Morris and M. Puech and N. Welikala and A. M. Swinbank and H. Schnetler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.1586},
year = {2015}
}
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11 pages, to be published in Proc SPIE 7735: Ground-based & Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III