Planning scientific operations for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer

Jennifer L. Marshall; Jennifer Sobeck; Andreea O. Petric; Nicolas Flagey

doi:10.1117/12.2629973

25 August 2022 Planning scientific operations for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer

Jennifer L. Marshall, Jennifer Sobeck, Andreea O. Petric, Nicolas Flagey

Proceedings Volume 12186, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems IX; 1218609 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629973
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Abstract

Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is the first of the future generation of massively multiplexed spectroscopic facilities. MSE is designed to enable transformative science, being completely dedicated to large-scale multi-object spectroscopic surveys. MSE’s conceptual design includes an 11.25 m aperture telescope which feeds 4,332 fibers over a wide 1.52 square degree field of view. Its spectrographs will have the capabilities to observe at a range of spectral resolutions, from R~3,000 to R~40,000, with all spectral resolutions available at all times and across the entire field. As a dedicated survey facility, MSE must be able to efficiently execute a wide variety of scientific programs at the same time. Here we describe continued planning to execute MSE’s Design Reference Survey, an exercise to plan for and simulate a sample of potential first-generation science programs that exercise the design parameters of the spectroscopic facility.

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Jennifer L. Marshall, Jennifer Sobeck, Andreea O. Petric, and Nicolas Flagey "Planning scientific operations for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer", Proc. SPIE 12186, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems IX, 1218609 (25 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629973

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