MOSAIC at the ELT: a unique instrument for the largest ground-based telescope

Roser Pelló; Mathieu Puech; Éric Prieto; Myriam Rodrigues; Rubén Sanchez-Janssen; Gavin B. Dalton; Franck Ducret; Kacem El Hadi; María L. García-Vargas; Jeff Lynn; Nazim A. Bharmal; Diane Chapuis; Michel Dupieux; Clément Hottier; Marie Larrieu; Laurent Martin; Meghna Mohamed; Tim Morris; Ana Pérez; Walter Seifert; Wenli Xu; Simon Morris; Lex Kaper; Jesús Gallego; Jose Afonso; Beatriz Barbuy; Thierry Contini; Alexis Finoguenov; Susan Kassin; Christopher Miller; Göran Ostlin; Laura Pentericci; Daniel Schaerer; Matthias Steinmetz; Bodo Ziegler; Ricardo Araujo; Joar Brynnel; Bruno Castilho; Christopher J. Conselice; Nick Cvetojevic; Christopher Davison; Julien Dejonghe; Mirka Dessauges-Zavadsky; Kjetil Dohlen; Décio Ferreira; Armando Gil de Paz; Thiago S. Gonçalves; Isabelle Guinouard; Matthew J. Hayes; Derek Ives; Annemieke Janssen; Carol Kehrig; Andreas Kelz; Davor Krajnović; Audrey A. Lanotte; Nicolas Laporte; Philippe Laporte; Soren Larsen; Bertran Lemasle; Ian Lewis; Jiang-Tao Li; Elena Pancino; Matthew M. Pieri; Christian Surace; Markus Thurneysen; Susanna Vergani; François Wildi; Fernando Álvarez Moreno; Raziye Artan; Mathilde Beaulieu; Eva Besada; Arjan Bik; Charlotte Bond; Mohamed Bouri; Jérémie Boy; David Bramall; Sarah Brands; Antonio Braulio; Tim Butterley; Cristina Cabello; Marina Calero de Ory; Rocio Calvo; Africa Castillo Morales; Zalpha Challita; Stephen Chittik; Andrés Curto Maldonado; Fátima De Frontat; Elfi Dijkstra; Eddy Elswijk; Gilles Fasola; Carmen Feiz; Fabio Fialho; Johan Floriot; Paolo Franzetti; Marco Fumana; Luis Gabarra; Lia Garcia; Adriana Gargiulo; Julien Gaudemard; Domenico Giannone; Polly Gill; Alicia Gomez-Gutierrez; Carole Gouvret; Alan Guenther; Douglas Harvey; José Miguel Ibáñez Mengual; Jorge Iglesias; Yevgeniy Ivanisenko; Peter Kunst; Sander Kwast; Kieran Leschinski; Gianluca Licausi; Sebastiano Ligori; Juan Antonio López Orozco; Adam Lowe; Mike Macintosh; Héctor Magan; Manuel Maldonado; Thomas Marquart; Lucimara Martins; Marisole Melara; Jens Melinder; Jeannet Molema; David Montgomery; María Morales; Francisco Najarro; Nicolas Nardetto; Ramon Navarro; Antoine Ottomani; Tony Pamplona; Cyril Pannetier; Phil Parr-Burman; Sergio Pascual; María Peñataro; Isabel Pérez Grande; Jan Rinze Peterzon; Javier Piqueras; Nicolai Piskunov; Ramon Rodriguez Cardoso; Sergio Rodriguez Venzal; Rick Romp; Hossein Rostami; Frédéric Royer; Daniel Sablowski; Ainhoa Sanchez; Ernesto Sánchez Blanco; Ellen Schalling; Jurgen Schmoll; Noah Schwartz; Jay Stephan; Sylvestre Taburet; David Terrett; Ignacio Torralbo; Niels Tromp; Gerardo Veredas; Yanbin Yang; Alec York; Werner Zeilinger

doi:10.1117/12.3019047

18 July 2024 MOSAIC at the ELT: a unique instrument for the largest ground-based telescope

Roser Pelló, Mathieu Puech, Éric Prieto, Myriam Rodrigues, Rubén Sanchez-Janssen, Gavin B. Dalton, Franck Ducret, Kacem El Hadi, María L. García-Vargas, Jeff Lynn, Nazim A. Bharmal, Diane Chapuis, Michel Dupieux, Clément Hottier, Marie Larrieu, Laurent Martin, Meghna Mohamed, Tim Morris, Ana Pérez, Walter Seifert, Wenli Xu, Simon Morris, Lex Kaper, Jesús Gallego, Jose Afonso, Beatriz Barbuy, Thierry Contini, Alexis Finoguenov, Susan Kassin, Christopher Miller, Göran Ostlin, Laura Pentericci, Daniel Schaerer, Matthias Steinmetz, Bodo Ziegler, Ricardo Araujo, Joar Brynnel, Bruno Castilho, Christopher J. Conselice, Nick Cvetojevic, Christopher Davison, Julien Dejonghe, Mirka Dessauges-Zavadsky, Kjetil Dohlen, Décio Ferreira, Armando Gil de Paz, Thiago S. Gonçalves, Isabelle Guinouard, Matthew J. Hayes, Derek Ives, Annemieke Janssen, Carol Kehrig, Andreas Kelz, Davor Krajnović, Audrey A. Lanotte, Nicolas Laporte, Philippe Laporte, Soren Larsen, Bertran Lemasle, Ian Lewis, Jiang-Tao Li, Elena Pancino, Matthew M. Pieri, Christian Surace, Markus Thurneysen, Susanna Vergani, François Wildi, Fernando Álvarez Moreno, Raziye Artan, Mathilde Beaulieu, Eva Besada, Arjan Bik, Charlotte Bond, Mohamed Bouri, Jérémie Boy, David Bramall, Sarah Brands, Antonio Braulio, Tim Butterley, Cristina Cabello, Marina Calero de Ory, Rocio Calvo, Africa Castillo Morales, Zalpha Challita, Stephen Chittik, Andrés Curto Maldonado, Fátima De Frontat, Elfi Dijkstra, Eddy Elswijk, Gilles Fasola, Carmen Feiz, Fabio Fialho, Johan Floriot, Paolo Franzetti, Marco Fumana, Luis Gabarra, Lia Garcia, Adriana Gargiulo, Julien Gaudemard, Domenico Giannone, Polly Gill, Alicia Gomez-Gutierrez, Carole Gouvret, Alan Guenther, Douglas Harvey, José Miguel Ibáñez Mengual, Jorge Iglesias, Yevgeniy Ivanisenko, Peter Kunst, Sander Kwast, Kieran Leschinski, Gianluca Licausi, Sebastiano Ligori, Juan Antonio López Orozco, Adam Lowe, Mike Macintosh, Héctor Magan, Manuel Maldonado, Thomas Marquart, Lucimara Martins, Marisole Melara, Jens Melinder, Jeannet Molema, David Montgomery, María Morales, Francisco Najarro, Nicolas Nardetto, Ramon Navarro, Antoine Ottomani, Tony Pamplona, Cyril Pannetier, Phil Parr-Burman, Sergio Pascual, María Peñataro, Isabel Pérez Grande, Jan Rinze Peterzon, Javier Piqueras, Nicolai Piskunov, Ramon Rodriguez Cardoso, Sergio Rodriguez Venzal, Rick Romp, Hossein Rostami, Frédéric Royer, Daniel Sablowski, Ainhoa Sanchez, Ernesto Sánchez Blanco, Ellen Schalling, Jurgen Schmoll, Noah Schwartz, Jay Stephan, Sylvestre Taburet, David Terrett, Ignacio Torralbo, Niels Tromp, Gerardo Veredas, Yanbin Yang, Alec York, Werner Zeilinger

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Proceedings Volume 13096, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X; 1309615 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019047
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

Abstract

MOSAIC is the Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS) for the 39m Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), with unique capabilities in terms of multiplex, wavelength coverage and spectral resolution. It is a versatile multi-object spectrograph working in both the Visible and NIR domains, designed to cover the largest possible area (∼40 arcmin²) on the focal plane, and optimized to achieve the best possible signal-to-noise ratio on the faintest sources, from stars in our Galaxy to galaxies at the epoch of the reionization. In this paper we describe the main characteristics of the instrument, including its expected performance in the different observing modes. The status of the project will be briefly presented, together with the positioning of the instrument in the landscape of the ELT instrumentation. We also review the main expected scientific contributions of MOSAIC, focusing on the synergies between this instrument and other major ground-based and space facilities.

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Roser Pelló, Mathieu Puech, Éric Prieto, Myriam Rodrigues, Rubén Sanchez-Janssen, Gavin B. Dalton, Franck Ducret, Kacem El Hadi, María L. García-Vargas, Jeff Lynn, Nazim A. Bharmal, Diane Chapuis, Michel Dupieux, Clément Hottier, Marie Larrieu, Laurent Martin, Meghna Mohamed, Tim Morris, Ana Pérez, Walter Seifert, Wenli Xu, Simon Morris, Lex Kaper, Jesús Gallego, Jose Afonso, Beatriz Barbuy, Thierry Contini, Alexis Finoguenov, Susan Kassin, Christopher Miller, Göran Ostlin, Laura Pentericci, Daniel Schaerer, Matthias Steinmetz, Bodo Ziegler, Ricardo Araujo, Joar Brynnel, Bruno Castilho, Christopher J. Conselice, Nick Cvetojevic, Christopher Davison, Julien Dejonghe, Mirka Dessauges-Zavadsky, Kjetil Dohlen, Décio Ferreira, Armando Gil de Paz, Thiago S. Gonçalves, Isabelle Guinouard, Matthew J. Hayes, Derek Ives, Annemieke Janssen, Carol Kehrig, Andreas Kelz, Davor Krajnović, Audrey A. Lanotte, Nicolas Laporte, Philippe Laporte, Soren Larsen, Bertran Lemasle, Ian Lewis, Jiang-Tao Li, Elena Pancino, Matthew M. Pieri, Christian Surace, Markus Thurneysen, Susanna Vergani, François Wildi, Fernando Álvarez Moreno, Raziye Artan, Mathilde Beaulieu, Eva Besada, Arjan Bik, Charlotte Bond, Mohamed Bouri, Jérémie Boy, David Bramall, Sarah Brands, Antonio Braulio, Tim Butterley, Cristina Cabello, Marina Calero de Ory, Rocio Calvo, Africa Castillo Morales, Zalpha Challita, Stephen Chittik, Andrés Curto Maldonado, Fátima De Frontat, Elfi Dijkstra, Eddy Elswijk, Gilles Fasola, Carmen Feiz, Fabio Fialho, Johan Floriot, Paolo Franzetti, Marco Fumana, Luis Gabarra, Lia Garcia, Adriana Gargiulo, Julien Gaudemard, Domenico Giannone, Polly Gill, Alicia Gomez-Gutierrez, Carole Gouvret, Alan Guenther, Douglas Harvey, José Miguel Ibáñez Mengual, Jorge Iglesias, Yevgeniy Ivanisenko, Peter Kunst, Sander Kwast, Kieran Leschinski, Gianluca Licausi, Sebastiano Ligori, Juan Antonio López Orozco, Adam Lowe, Mike Macintosh, Héctor Magan, Manuel Maldonado, Thomas Marquart, Lucimara Martins, Marisole Melara, Jens Melinder, Jeannet Molema, David Montgomery, María Morales, Francisco Najarro, Nicolas Nardetto, Ramon Navarro, Antoine Ottomani, Tony Pamplona, Cyril Pannetier, Phil Parr-Burman, Sergio Pascual, María Peñataro, Isabel Pérez Grande, Jan Rinze Peterzon, Javier Piqueras, Nicolai Piskunov, Ramon Rodriguez Cardoso, Sergio Rodriguez Venzal, Rick Romp, Hossein Rostami, Frédéric Royer, Daniel Sablowski, Ainhoa Sanchez, Ernesto Sánchez Blanco, Ellen Schalling, Jurgen Schmoll, Noah Schwartz, Jay Stephan, Sylvestre Taburet, David Terrett, Ignacio Torralbo, Niels Tromp, Gerardo Veredas, Yanbin Yang, Alec York, and Werner Zeilinger "MOSAIC at the ELT: a unique instrument for the largest ground-based telescope", Proc. SPIE 13096, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X, 1309615 (18 July 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019047

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