Telescope Optical Design - inaoe

Telescope Optical Design - inaoe Telescope Optical Design - inaoe

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Resolving power SPM-Twin: Wide-Field Sampling & Integration (complementary limitations) 1.5° Field of View (5400”) = 1.77 square degrees Lots of sampling elements (“spaxels”): 2.4x10 7 squared arcsecs a) Full wavelength range with well-chosen spatial coverage (d-IFUs, fiber-bundles, starbugs) b) Full spatial coverage with a finite wavelength range (WFT tunable imager) 1800 OSIRIS TF: Available resolving powers 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 Wavelength (nm) m = 2 l cos R = m N dR/R = dm/m = dl/l R: 100 - 1000 m: 4 – 40 l : 1.5 – 15 μm K.A.O.S. Purple Book 2002 GTC-OSIRIS

SPM-Twin WFT: 3 Spaxel Distributions for Spectroscopy High-Z & Stellar objects a. Super sloan-like surveys (DE, LSS, etc. basically redshifts) b. Stellar surveys (thick disk, Local group systems) c. GC & PN systems d. HII Regions in local galaxies Very large number of individual spaxels (sparse sampling) with limited patrol fields each) The Intermediate-z Universe and semi-crowded fields a. Indicative galaxy dynamics, gradients and size b. Indicative structure (notches, pair interaction, etc) A number of relatively small IFUs (sparse with limited-continuous sampling), relatively large patrol fields The “local” 150 Mpc Universe a. Large galaxies b. galactic extended sources Single Large IFU (continuous sampling), fixed patrol field

SPM-Twin WFT:<br />

3 Spaxel Distributions for Spectroscopy<br />

High-Z & Stellar objects<br />

a. Super sloan-like surveys (DE, LSS, etc. basically redshifts)<br />

b. Stellar surveys (thick disk, Local group systems)<br />

c. GC & PN systems<br />

d. HII Regions in local galaxies<br />

Very large number of individual spaxels (sparse sampling) with limited patrol<br />

fields each)<br />

The Intermediate-z Universe and semi-crowded fields<br />

a. Indicative galaxy dynamics, gradients and size<br />

b. Indicative structure (notches, pair interaction, etc)<br />

A number of relatively small IFUs (sparse with limited-continuous sampling),<br />

relatively large patrol fields<br />

The “local” 150 Mpc Universe<br />

a. Large galaxies<br />

b. galactic extended sources<br />

Single Large IFU (continuous sampling), fixed patrol field

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