The infrared imaging spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: Sensitivities and simulations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Wright, Shelley A ^a   Barton, Elizabeth J ^b   Larkin, James E ^c   Moore, Anna M ^d   Crampton, David ^e,f   Simard, Luc ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^f Thirty Meter Telescope Project   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomical; diffraction limit imaging and spectroscopy; extremely large telescopes; instrumentation; integral field spectrograph; near infrared; sensitivities; simulator

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL; DIFFRACTION LIMIT IMAGING; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; INSTRUMENTATION; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROGRAPH; NEAR INFRARED; SENSITIVITIES;

COSMOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; GALAXIES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; INSTRUMENTS; SPECTROGRAPHS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 78149260578     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856501     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (19)

1. Larkin, J. et al., "OSIRIS: a diffraction limited integral field spectrograph for Keck", Proc. SPIE 6269, 62691A (2006)
2. Eisenhauer, F. et al., "SINFONI - Integral field spectroscopy at 50 milli-arcsecond resolution with the ESO VLT", Proc. SPIE 4841, 1548 (2003)
3. McGregor, P. et al., "Gemini near-infrared integral field spectrograph (NIFS)", Proc. SPIE 4841, 1581 (2003)
4. Larkin, J. et al., "The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: Instrument Overview", Proc. SPIE, 7735, (2010)
5. Nelson, J. and Sanders, G. H., "The status of the Thirty Meter Telescope project", Proc. SPIE 7012, 70121A (2008)
6. Suzuki, R. et al., "The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: Imager Design", Proc. SPIE 7735, (2010)
7. Herriot, G. et al., "NFIRAOS: TMT narrow field near-infrared facility adaptive optics", Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, (2010)
8. Moore, A. et al., "The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: Spectrograph Design", Proc. SPIE 7735, (2010)
9. Barton, E. et al., "The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: The Science Case", Proc. SPIE 7735, (2010)
10. Förster-Schreiber, N., et al., "The SINS Survey: SINFONI Integral Field Spectroscopy of z ∼ 2 Star-forming Galaxies" ApJ 706, 1364 (2009)
11. Law, D. R., et al., "The Kiloparsec-scale Kinematics of High-redshift Star-forming Galaxies", ApJ 697, 2057 (2009)
12. Wright, S. A., et al., "Dynamics of Galactic Disks and Mergers at z ∼ 1.6: Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy with Keck Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics", ApJ 699, 421 (2009)
13. Law, D. R., et al., "Kinematics and Formation Mechanisms of High-Redshift Galaxies", The Astronomy and Astrophysical Decadal Survey, Science White paper no. 172 (2010)
14. Wright, S. A., et al., "Tracing the Evolution and Distribution of Metallicity in the Early Universe", The Astronomy and Astrophysical Decadal Survey, Science White paper no. 327 (2010)
15. Adelberger, K., et al., "The Spatial Clustering of Star-forming Galaxies at Redshifts 1.4 <∼ z <∼ 3.5", ApJ 619, 697 (2005)
16. Kennicutt, R. C., "The Global Schmidt Law in Star-forming Galaxies", ApJ 498, 541 (1998)
17. Komatsu, E., et al. "Seven-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation", arXiv, 1001.4538 (2010)
18. Overzier, R., et al., "Hubble Space Telescope Morphologies of Local Lyman Break Galaxy Analogs. I. Evidence for Starbursts Triggered by Merging", ApJ 677, 37 (2008)
19. Cooke, J., et al., "First Light Sources at the End of the Dark Ages: Direct Observations of Population III Stars, Proto-Galaxies, and Supernovae During the Reionization Epoch", The Astronomy and Astrophysical Decadal Survey, Science White paper no. 53 (2010)