The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Book 2018
Abstract
(Abridged) This is the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer 2018 book. It is intended as a concise reference guide to all aspects of the scientific and technical design of MSE, for the international astronomy and engineering communities, and related agencies. The current version is a status report of MSE's science goals and their practical implementation, following the System Conceptual Design Review, held in January 2018. MSE is a planned 10-m class, wide-field, optical and near-infrared facility, designed to enable transformative science, while filling a critical missing gap in the emerging international network of large-scale astronomical facilities. MSE is completely dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy of samples of between thousands and millions of astrophysical objects. It will lead the world in this arena, due to its unique design capabilities: it will boast a large (11.25 m) aperture and wide (1.52 sq. degree) field of view; it will have the capabilities to observe at a wide range of spectral resolutions, from R2500 to R40,000, with massive multiplexing (4332 spectra per exposure, with all spectral resolutions available at all times), and an on-target observing efficiency of more than 80%. MSE will unveil the composition and dynamics of the faint Universe and is designed to excel at precision studies of faint astrophysical phenomena. It will also provide critical follow-up for multi-wavelength imaging surveys, such as those of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Gaia, Euclid, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, the Square Kilometre Array, and the Next Generation Very Large Array.
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@article{arxiv.1810.08695,
title = {The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Book 2018},
author = {Alexis Hill and Nicolas Flagey and Alan McConnachie and Kei Szeto and Andre Anthony and Javier Ariño and Ferdinand Babas and Gregoire Bagnoud and Gabriella Baker and Gregory Barrick and Steve Bauman and Tom Benedict and Christophe Berthod and Armando Bilbao and Alberto Bizkarguenaga and Alexandre Blin and Colin Bradley and Denis Brousseau and Rebecca Brown and Jurek Brzeski and Walter Brzezik and Patrick Caillier and Ramón Campo and Pierre-Henri Carton and Jiaru Chu and Vladimir Churilov and David Crampton and Lisa Crofoot and Laurie Dale and Lander de Bilbao and Markel Sainz de la Maza and Daniel Devost and Michael Edgar and Darren Erickson and Tony Farrell and Pascal Fouque and Paul Fournier and Javier Garrido and Mike Gedig and Nicolas Geyskens and James Gilbert and Peter Gillingham and Guillermo González de Rivera and Greg Green and Eric Grigel and Patrick Hall and Kevin Ho and David Horville and Hongzhuan Hu and David Irusta and Sidik Isani and Farbod Jahandar and Manoj Kaplinghat and Collin Kielty and Neelesh Kulkarni and Leire Lahidalga and Florence Laurent and Jon Lawrence and Mary Beth Laychak and Jooyoung Lee and Zhigang Liu and Nathan Loewen and Fernando López and Thomas Lorentz and Guillaume Lorgeoux and Billy Mahoney and Slavko Mali and Eric Manuel and Sofía Martínez and Celine Mazoukh and Younès Messaddeq and Jean-Emmanuel Migniau and Shan Mignot and Stephanie Monty and Steeve Morency and Yves Mouser and Ronny Muller and Rolf Muller and Gaizka Murga and Rick Murowinski and Victor Nicolov and Naveen Pai and Rafal Pawluczyk and John Pazder and Arlette Pécontal and Andreea Petric and Francisco Prada and Corinne Rai and Coba Ricard and Jennifer Roberts and J. Michael Rodgers and Jane Rodgers and Federico Ruan and Tamatea Russelo and Derrick Salmom and Justo Sánchez and Will Saunders and Case Scott and Andy Sheinis and Douglas Simons and Scott Smedley and Zhen Tang and Jose Teran and Simon Thibault and Sivarani Thirupathi and Laurence Tresse and Mitchell Troy and Rafael Urrutia and Emile van Vuuren and Sudharshan Venkatesan and Kim Venn and Tom Vermeulen and Eva Villaver and Lew Waller and Lei Wang and Jianping Wang and Eric Williams and Matt Wilson and Kanoa Withington and Christophe Yèche and David Yong and Chao Zhai and Kai Zhang and Ross Zhelem and Zengxiang Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.08695},
year = {2018}
}
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5 chapters, 160 pages, 107 figures