MAVIS conceptual design

A consortium of several Australian and European institutes - together with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) - has initiated the design of MAVIS, a Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system for the ground- based 8-m Very Large Telescope (VLT). MAVIS (MCAO-assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph) will deliver visible images and integral field spectrograph data with 2-3x better angular resolution than the Hubble Space Telescope, making it a powerful complement at visible wavelengths to future facilities like the space-based James Webb Space Telescope and the 30 to 40m-class ground-based telescopes currently under construction, which are all targeting science at near-infrared wavelengths. MAVIS successfully passed its Phase A in May 2020. We present the motivations, requirements, principal design choices, conceptual design, expected performance and an overview of the exciting science enabled by MAVIS....

Coverage

Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII

All editors

Evans, Christopher J.; Bryant, Julia J.; Motohara, Kentaro

Series

PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE

Volume

11447

Start page

332

Conferenece

Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII

Conferenece place

Online Only, California, United States

Conferenece date

14-18 December, 2020

Uri

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/36270

Url

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11447/2561886/MAVIS-conceptual-design/10.1117/12.2561886.short

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85100002356

Issn Identifier

0277-786X

Ads BibCode

2020SPIE11447E..1RR

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open.access

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2020_SPIE_MAVIS_Francois.pdf

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MAVIS conceptual design

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