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Sofia Feltzing

Sofia Feltzing

Professor of astronomy

Sofia Feltzing

The 4MOST instrument concept overview

Author

  • Roger Haynes
  • Sam Barden
  • Roelof de Jong
  • Olivier Schnurr
  • Olga Bellido
  • Jakob Walcher
  • Dionne Haynes
  • Roland Winkler
  • Svend-Marian Bauer
  • Frank Dionies
  • Allar Saviauk
  • Cristina Chiappini
  • Axel Schwope
  • Joar Brynnel
  • Matthias Steinmetz
  • Richard McMahon
  • Sofia Feltzing
  • Patrick Francois
  • Scott Trager
  • Ian Parry
  • Mike Irwin
  • Nicholas Walton
  • David King
  • David Sun
  • Eduaro Gonzalez-Solares
  • Ian Tosh
  • Gavin Dalton
  • Kevin Middleton
  • Piercarlo Bonifacio
  • Pascal Jagourel
  • Shan. Mignot
  • Mathieu Cohen
  • Jean-Philippe Amans
  • Frederic Royer
  • Paola Sartoretti
  • Johan Pragt
  • Gerrit Gerlofsma
  • Ronald Roelfsema
  • Ramon Navarro
  • Guido Thimm
  • Walter Seifert
  • Norbert Christleib
  • Holger Mandel
  • Trifon Trifonov
  • Wenli Xu
  • Florian Lang-Bardl
  • Bernard Muschielok
  • Jeorg Schlichter
  • Hans-Joachim Hess
  • Frank Grupp
  • Hans Boehringer
  • Thomas Boller
  • Tom Dwelly
  • Ralf Bender
  • Piero Rosati
  • Olaf Iwert
  • Gert Finger
  • Jean-Louis Lizon L'Allemand
  • Will Saunders
  • Andrew Sheinis
  • Gabriella Frost
  • Tony Farrell
  • Lew Waller
  • Eric Depagne
  • Florence Laurent
  • Patrick Caillier
  • Johan Kosmalski
  • Johan Richard
  • Roland Bacon
  • Wolfgang Ansorge
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Summary, in English

The 4MOST([1]) instrument is a concept for a wide-field, fibre-fed high multiplex spectroscopic instrument facility on the ESO VISTA telescope designed to perform a massive (initially >25x10(6) spectra in 5 years) combined all-sky public survey. The main science drivers are: Gaia follow up of chemo-dynamical structure of the Milky Way, stellar radial velocities, parameters and abundances, chemical tagging; eROSITA follow up of cosmology with x-ray clusters of galaxies, X-ray AGN/galaxy evolution to z similar to 5, Galactic X-ray sources and resolving the Galactic edge; Euclid/LSST/SKA and other survey follow up of Dark Energy, Galaxy evolution and transients. The surveys will be undertaken simultaneously requiring: highly advanced targeting and scheduling software, also comprehensive data reduction and analysis tools to produce high-level data products. The instrument will allow simultaneous observations of similar to 1600 targets at R similar to 5,000 from 390-900nm and similar to 800 targets at R>18,000 in three channels between similar to 395-675nm (channel bandwidth: 45nm blue, 57nm green and 69nm red) over a hexagonal field of view of similar to 4.1 degrees2. The initial 5-year 4MOST survey is currently expect to start in 2020. We provide and overview of the 4MOST systems: opto-mechanical, control, data management and operations concepts; and initial performance estimates.

Department/s

  • Lund Observatory - Has been reorganised

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

91476-91476

Publication/Series

Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V

Volume

9147

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

SPIE

Topic

  • Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Keywords

  • 4MOST
  • VISTA
  • spectroscopic facility
  • wide field MOS
  • multi-object
  • optical fibre
  • system design

Conference name

5th Conference on Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy

Conference date

2014-06-22 - 2014-06-26

Conference place

Montreal, Canada

Status

Published

Project

  • 4MOST - massive spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way and the Universe
  • The New Milky Way

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0277-786X
  • ISSN: 1996-756X