The ELT-MOS (MOSAIC): towards the construction phase
Abstract
When combined with the huge collecting area of the ELT, MOSAIC will be the most effective and flexible Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS) facility in the world, having both a high multiplex and a multi-Integral Field Unit (Multi-IFU) capability. It will be the fastest way to spectroscopically follow-up the faintest sources, probing the reionisation epoch, as well as evaluating the evolution of the dwarf mass function over most of the age of the Universe. MOSAIC will be world-leading in generating an inventory of both the dark matter (from realistic rotation curves with MOAO fed NIR IFUs) and the cool to warm-hot gas phases in z=3.5 galactic haloes (with visible wavelenth IFUs). Galactic archaeology and the first massive black holes are additional targets for which MOSAIC will also be revolutionary. MOAO and accurate sky subtraction with fibres have now been demonstrated on sky, removing all low Technical Readiness Level (TRL) items from the instrument. A prompt implementation of MOSAIC is feasible, and indeed could increase the robustness and reduce risk on the ELT, since it does not require diffraction limited adaptive optics performance. Science programmes and survey strategies are currently being investigated by the Consortium, which is also hoping to welcome a few new partners in the next two years.
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@article{arxiv.1807.00720,
title = {The ELT-MOS (MOSAIC): towards the construction phase},
author = {Simon Morris and François Hammer and Pascal Jagourel and Christopher J. Evans and Mathieu Puech and Gavin B. Dalton and Myriam Rodrigues and Ruben Sanchez-Janssen and Ewan Fitzsimons and Beatriz Barbuy and Jean-Gabriel Cuby and Lex Kaper and Martin Roth and Gérard Rousset and Richard Myers and Olivier Le Fèvre and Alexis Finogenov and Jari Kotilainen and Bruno Castilho and Goran Ostlin and Sofia Feltzing and Andreas Korn and Jesus Gallego and África Castillo Morales and Jorge Iglesias-Páramo and Laura Pentericci and Bodo Ziegler and Jose Afonso and Marc Dubbledam and Madeline Close and Phil Parr-Burman and Timothy J. Morris and Fanny Chemla and Fatima De Frondat and Andreas Kelz and Isabelle Guinouard and Ian J. Lewis and Kevin Middleton and Ramon Navarro and Marie LarrieuJohan Pragt and Annemieke Janssen and Kjetil Dohlen and Kacem El Hadi and Éric Gendron and Yanbin Yang and Martyn Wells and Jean-Marc Conan and Thierry Fusco and Daniel Schaerer and Ted Bergin and Sylvestre Taburet and Mickaël Frotin and Nadia Berkourn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.00720},
year = {2018}
}
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6 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to SPIE Proceedings, AS18