The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) first light instrument IRIS (Infrared Imaging Spectrograph) will complete its preliminary design phase in 2016. The IRIS instrument design includes a near-infrared (0.85 - 2.4 micron) integral field spectrograph (IFS) and imager that are able to conduct simultaneous diffraction-limited observations behind the advanced adaptive optics system NFIRAOS. The IRIS science cases have continued to be developed and new science studies have been investigated to aid in technical performance and design requirements. In this development phase, the IRIS science team has paid particular attention to the selection of filters, gratings, sensitivities of the entire system, and science cases that will benefit from the parallel mode of the IFS and imaging camera. We present new science cases for IRIS using the latest end-to-end data simulator on the following topics: Solar System bodies, the Galactic center, active galactic nuclei (AGN), and distant gravitationally-lensed galaxies. We then briefly discuss the necessity of an advanced data management system and data reduction pipeline.
@article{arxiv.1608.01696,
title = {The InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: latest science cases and simulations},
author = {Shelley A. Wright and Gregory Walth and Tuan Do and Daniel Marshall and James E. Larkin and Anna M. Moore and Mate Adamkovics and David Andersen and Lee Armus and Aaron Barth and Patrick Cote and Jeff Cooke and Eric M. Chisholm and Timothy Davidge and Jennifer S. Dunn and Christophe Dumas and Brent L. Ellerbroeck and Andrea M. Ghez and Lei Hao and Yutaka Hayano and Michael Liu and Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez and Jessica R. Lu and Shude Mao and Christian Marois and Shashi B. Pandey and Andrew C. Philips and Matthias Schoeck and Annapurni Subramaniam and Smitha Subramanian and Ryuji Suzuki and Jonathan C. Tan and Tsuyoshi Terai and Tommaso Treu and Luc Simard and Jason L. Weiss and James Wincensten and Michael Wong and Kai Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.01696},
year = {2016}
}