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13 December 2020 Crescent MOONS: an update on the ongoing construction of the new VLT's multi-object spectrograph
Michele Cirasuolo, Oscar Gonzalez, Phil Rees, Ian Bryson, Alasdair Fairley, William Taylor, Jose Afonso, Simon Lilly, Chris Evans, Hector Flores, Roberto Maiolino, Ernesto Oliva, Stephane Paltani, Leonardo Vanzi, Manuel Abreu, Jean-Philippe Amans, David Atkinson, Steven Beard, Clementine Béchet, Andrea Belfiore, Martin Black, David Boettger, Saskia Brierley, David Buscher, Alexandre Cabral, Marcella Carollo, William Cochrane, João Coelho, Miriam Colling, Ralf Conzelmann, Francesco Dalessio, Louise Dauvin, George Davidson, Giles Fasola, Debora Ferruzzi, Martin Fisher, Mauricio Flores, Bianca Garilli, Adriana Gargiulo, Julien Gaudemard, Isabelle Guinouard, Pablo Gutierrez, Régis Haigron, Chris Haniff, Derek Ives, Olaf Iwert, David King, Suzanne Kovacz, Philippe Laporte, David Lee, Gianluca Li Causi, Yerko Luco, Alastair Macleod, Charles Maire, Basile-Thierry Melse, António Oliveira, Livia Origlia, Ian Parry, Fernando Pedichini, Roberto Piazzesi, Florent Reix, Myriam Rodrigues, Felipe Rojas, Frédéric Royer, Pedro Santos, Robin Schnell, Tzu-Chiang Shen, Michael Sordet, Jonathan Strachan, Xaiowei Sun, Graham Tait, Andrea Tozzi, Simon Tulloch, Lauren Von Dran, Chris Waring, Stephen Watson, Brian Woodward, Yanbin Yang
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Abstract
The Multi Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph (MOONS) instrument is the next generation multi-object spectrograph for the VLT. This powerful instrument will combine for the first time: the large collecting power of the VLT with a high multipexing capability offered by 1000 optical fibres moved with individual robotic positioners and a novel, very fast spectrograph able to provide both low- and high-resolution spectroscopy simultaneously across the wavelength range 0.64μm - 1.8μm. Such a facility will provide the astronomical community with a powerful, world-leading instrument able to serve a wide range of Galactic, Extragalactic and Cosmological studies. Th final assembly, integration and verification phase of the instrument is now about to start performance testing.
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Michele Cirasuolo, Oscar Gonzalez, Phil Rees, Ian Bryson, Alasdair Fairley, William Taylor, Jose Afonso, Simon Lilly, Chris Evans, Hector Flores, Roberto Maiolino, Ernesto Oliva, Stephane Paltani, Leonardo Vanzi, Manuel Abreu, Jean-Philippe Amans, David Atkinson, Steven Beard, Clementine Béchet, Andrea Belfiore, Martin Black, David Boettger, Saskia Brierley, David Buscher, Alexandre Cabral, Marcella Carollo, William Cochrane, João Coelho, Miriam Colling, Ralf Conzelmann, Francesco Dalessio, Louise Dauvin, George Davidson, Giles Fasola, Debora Ferruzzi, Martin Fisher, Mauricio Flores, Bianca Garilli, Adriana Gargiulo, Julien Gaudemard, Isabelle Guinouard, Pablo Gutierrez, Régis Haigron, Chris Haniff, Derek Ives, Olaf Iwert, David King, Suzanne Kovacz, Philippe Laporte, David Lee, Gianluca Li Causi, Yerko Luco, Alastair Macleod, Charles Maire, Basile-Thierry Melse, António Oliveira, Livia Origlia, Ian Parry, Fernando Pedichini, Roberto Piazzesi, Florent Reix, Myriam Rodrigues, Felipe Rojas, Frédéric Royer, Pedro Santos, Robin Schnell, Tzu-Chiang Shen, Michael Sordet, Jonathan Strachan, Xaiowei Sun, Graham Tait, Andrea Tozzi, Simon Tulloch, Lauren Von Dran, Chris Waring, Stephen Watson, Brian Woodward, and Yanbin Yang "Crescent MOONS: an update on the ongoing construction of the new VLT's multi-object spectrograph", Proc. SPIE 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, 1144717 (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561229
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KEYWORDS
Astronomical imaging

Spectrographs

Astronomy

Large telescopes

Observatories

Optical fibers

Robotics

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