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24 September 2012 SAMI: a new multi-object IFS for the Anglo-Australian Telescope
Julia J. Bryant, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jon Lawrence, Scott Croom, Lisa M. Fogarty, Michael Goodwin, Samuel Richards, Tony Farrell, Stan Miziarski, Ron Heald, Heath Jones, Steve Lee, Matthew Colless, Michael Birchall, Andrew M. Hopkins, Sarah Brough, Amanda E. Bauer
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SAMI (Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph) has the potential to revolutionise our understanding of galaxies, with spatially-resolved spectroscopy of large numbers of targets. It is the first on-sky application of innovative photonic imaging bundles called hexabundles, which will remove the aperture effects that have biased previous single-fibre multi-object astronomical surveys. The hexabundles have lightly-fused circular multi-mode cores with a covering fraction of 73%. The thirteen hexabundles in SAMI, each have 61 fibre cores, and feed into the AAOmega spectrograph at the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). SAMI was installed at the AAT in July 2011 and the first commissioning results prove the effectiveness of hexabundles on sky. A galaxy survey of several thousand galaxies to z 0.1 will begin with SAMI in mid-2012.
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Julia J. Bryant, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jon Lawrence, Scott Croom, Lisa M. Fogarty, Michael Goodwin, Samuel Richards, Tony Farrell, Stan Miziarski, Ron Heald, Heath Jones, Steve Lee, Matthew Colless, Michael Birchall, Andrew M. Hopkins, Sarah Brough, and Amanda E. Bauer "SAMI: a new multi-object IFS for the Anglo-Australian Telescope", Proc. SPIE 8446, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, 84460X (24 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925115
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KEYWORDS
Galactic astronomy

Stars

Telescopes

Spectrographs

Iterated function systems

Astronomy

Astronomical imaging

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