Panopticon: a telescope for our times

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العنوان: Panopticon: a telescope for our times
المؤلفون: Saunders, Will, Chin, Timothy, Goodwin, Michael
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
الوصف: We present a design for a wide-field spectroscopic telescope. The only large powered mirror is spherical, the resulting spherical aberration is corrected for each target separately, giving exceptional image quality. The telescope is a transit design, but still allows all-sky coverage. Three simultaneous modes are proposed: (a) natural seeing multi-object spectroscopy with 12m aperture over 3dg FoV with ~25,000 targets; (b) multi-object AO with 12m aperture over 3dg FoV with ~100 AO-corrected Integral Field Units each with 4 arcsec FoV; (c) ground layer AO-corrected integral field spectroscopy with 15m aperture and 13 arcmin FoV. Such a telescope would be uniquely powerful for large-area follow-up of imaging surveys; in each mode, the AOmega and survey speed exceed all existing facilities combined. The expected cost of this design is relatively modest, much closer to $500M than $1000M.
Comment: 10 pages. SPIE 13094-191, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X, Yokohama 2024
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05103
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2407.05103
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv