New telescope designs suitable for massively multiplexed spectroscopy

Luca Pasquini; B. Delabre; R. Ellis; Tim de Zeeuw

doi:10.1117/12.2232289

27 July 2016 New telescope designs suitable for massively multiplexed spectroscopy

Luca Pasquini, B. Delabre, R. Ellis, Tim de Zeeuw

Proceedings Volume 9906, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI; 99063C (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232289
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

We present two novel designs for a telescope suitable for massively-multiplexed spectroscopy. The first is a very wide field Cassegrain telescope optimised for fibre feeding. It provides a Field Of View (FOV) of 2.5 degrees diameter with a 10m primary mirror. It is telecentric and works at F/3, optimal for fibre injection. As an option, a gravity invariant focus for the central 10 arc-minutes can be added, to host, for instance, a giant integral field unit (IFU). It has acceptable performance in the 360-1300 nm wavelength range. The second concept is an innovative five mirror telescope design based on a Three Mirror Anastigmatic (TMA) concept. The design provides a large FOV in a convenient, gravityinvariant focal plane, and is scalable to a range of telescope diameters. As specific example, we present a 10m telescope with a 1.5 degree diameter FOV and a relay system that allows simultaneous spectroscopy with 10,000 mini-IFUs over a square degree, or, alternatively a 17.5 square arcminutes giant IFU, by using 240 MUSE-type spectrographs. We stress the importance of developing the telescope and instrument designs for both cases.

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Luca Pasquini, B. Delabre, R. Ellis, and Tim de Zeeuw "New telescope designs suitable for massively multiplexed spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 9906, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI, 99063C (27 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232289

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