The Blue Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (BlueMUSE) on the VLT: science drivers and overview of instrument design

Authors: Richard, Johan, Giroud, Rémi, Laurent, Florence, Krajnović, Davor, Jeanneau, Alexandre, Bacon, Roland, Abreu, Manuel, Adamo, Angela, Araujo, Ricardo, Bouché, Nicolas, Brinchmann, Jarle, Cai, Zhemin, Castro, Norberto, Calcines, Ariadna, Chapuis, Diane, Claeyssens, Adélaïde, Cortese, Luca, Daddi, Emanuele, Davison, Christopher, Goodwin, Michael, Harris, Robert, Hayes, Matthew, Jauzac, Mathilde, Kelz, Andreas, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Lanotte, Audrey A., Lawrence, Jon, Bouteiller, Vianney Le, Breton, Rémy Le, Lehnert, Matthew, Sanchez, Angel Lopez, McGregor, Helen, McLeod, Anna F., Monteiro, Manuel, Morris, Simon, Opitom, Cyrielle, Pécontal, Arlette, Robertson, David, Roth, Martin M., van de Sande, Jesse, Smith, Russell, Steinmetz, Matthias, Swinbank, Mark, Urrutia, Tanya, Verhamme, Anne, Weilbacher, Peter M., Wendt, Martin, Wildi, François, Zheng, Jessica, consortium, The BlueMUSE

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13914

WST -- Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope: addressing the instrumentation challenges of a new 12m class telescope dedicated to widefield Multi-object and Integral Field Spectroscopy

Authors: Lee, David, Vernet, Joel D. R., Bacon, Roland, Jeanneau, Alexandre, Oliva, Ernesto, Brucalassi, Anna, Tozzi, Andrea, Araiza-Durán, José A., Bianco, Andrea, Kragt, Jan, Navarro, Ramon, Garilli, Bianca, Dohlen, Kjetil, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Araujo, Ricardo, Rombach, Maxime, Hernandez, Eloy, de Jong, Roelof S., Kelz, Andreas, Watson, Stephen, Louth, Tom, Bryson, Ian, George, Elizabeth, Hubin, Norbert, Bryant, Julia, Lawrence, Jon

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19198

The BlueMUSE data reduction pipeline: lessons learned from MUSE and first design choices

Authors: Weilbacher, Peter M., Martens, Sven, Wendt, Martin, Roth, Martin M., Dreizler, Stefan, Kelz, Andreas, Bacon, Roland, Richard, Johan

Source: Proc. SPIE 12189, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII, 1218912 (29 August 2022)

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06022

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) Survey Design, Reductions, and Detections

Authors: Gebhardt, Karl, Cooper, Erin Mentuch, Ciardullo, Robin, Acquaviva, Viviana, Bender, Ralf, Bowman, William P., Castanheira, Barbara G., Dalton, Gavin, Davis, Dustin, de Jong, Roelof S., DePoy, D. L., Devarakonda, Yaswant, Dongsheng, Sun, Drory, Niv, Fabricius, Maximilian, Farrow, Daniel J., Feldmeier, John, Finkelstein, Steven L., Froning, Cynthia S., Gawiser, Eric, Gronwall, Caryl, Herold, Laura, Hill, Gary J., Hopp, Ulrich, House, Lindsay R., Janowiecki, Steven, Jarvis, Matthew, Jeong, Donghui, Jogee, Shardha, Kakuma, Ryota, Kelz, Andreas, Kollatschny, W., Komatsu, Eiichiro, Krumpe, Mirko, Landriau, Martin, Liu, Chenxu, Niemeyer, Maja Lujan, MacQueen, Phillip, Marshall, Jennifer, Mawatari, Ken, McLinden, Emily M., Mukae, Shiro, Nagaraj, Gautam, Ono, Yoshiaki, Ouchi, Masami, Papovich, Casey, Sakai, Nao, Saito, Shun, Schneider, Donald P., Schulze, Andreas, Shanmugasundararaj, Khavvia, Shetrone, Matthew, Sneden, Chris, Snigula, Jan, Steinmetz, Matthias, Thomas, Benjamin P., Thomas, Brianna, Tuttle, Sarah, Urrutia, Tanya, Wisotzki, Lutz, Wold, Isak, Zeimann, Gregory, Zhang, Yechi

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04298

The HETDEX Instrumentation: Hobby-Eberly Telescope Wide Field Upgrade and VIRUS

Authors: Hill, Gary J., Lee, Hanshin, MacQueen, Phillip J., Kelz, Andreas, Drory, Niv, Vattiat, Brian L., Good, John M., Ramsey, Jason, Kriel, Herman, Peterson, Trent, DePoy, D. L., Gebhardt, Karl, Marshall, J. L., Tuttle, Sarah E., Bauer, Svend M., Chonis, Taylor S., Fabricius, Maximilian H., Froning, Cynthia, Haeuser, Marco, Indahl, Briana L., Jahn, Thomas, Landriau, Martin, Leck, Ron, Montesano, Francesco, Prochaska, Travis, Snigula, Jan M., Zeimann, Gregory R., Bryant, Randy, Damm, George, Fowler, J. R., Janowiecki, Steven, Martin, Jerry, Mrozinski, Emily, Odewahn, Stephen, Rostopchin, Sergey, Shetrone, Matthew, Spencer, Renny, Cooper, Erin Mentuch, Armandroff, Taft, Bender, Ralf, Dalton, Gavin, Hopp, Ulrich, Komatsu, Eiichiro, Nicklas, Harald, Ramsey, Lawrence W., Roth, Martin M., Schneider, Donald P., Sneden, Chris, Steinmetz, Matthias

Source: AJ 162 298 (2021)

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03843

HETDEX [OIII] Emitters I: A spectroscopically selected low-redshift population of low-mass, low-metallicity galaxies

Authors: Indahl, Briana, Zeimann, Greg, Hill, Gary J., Bowman, William P., Ciardullo, Robin, Drory, Niv, Gawiser, Eric, Hopp, Ulrich, Janowiecki, Steven, Boylan-Kolchin, Michael, Cooper, Erin Mentuch, Davis, Dustin, Farrow, Daniel, Finkelstein, Steven, Gronwall, Caryl, Kelz, Andreas, McQuinn, Kristen B. W., Schneider, Don, Tuttle, Sarah E.

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02892

The Stars of the HETDEX Survey. I. Radial Velocities and Metal-Poor Stars from Low-Resolution Stellar Spectra

Authors: Hawkins, Keith, Zeimann, Greg, Sneden, Chris, Cooper, Erin Mentuch, Gebhardt, Karl, Bond, Howard E., Carrillo, Andreia, Casey, Caitlin M., Castanheira, Barbara G., Ciardullo, Robin, Davis, Dustin, Farrow, Daniel J., Finkelstein, Steven L., Hill, Gary J., Kelz, Andreas, Liu, Chenxu, Shetrone, Matthew, Schneider, Donald P., Starkenburg, Else, Steinmetz, Matthias, Wheeler, Craig

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06224

MOSAIC: the high-multiplex and multi-IFU spectrograph for the ELT

Authors: Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén, Hammer, Francois, Morris, Simon, Cuby, Jean-Gabriel, Kaper, Lex, Steinmetz, Matthias, Afonso, Jose, Barbuy, Beatriz, Bergin, Edwin, Finoguenov, Alexis, Gallego, Jesús, Kassin, Susan, Miller, Christopher, Östlin, Goran, Pentericci, Laura, Schaerer, Daniel, Ziegler, Bodo, Chemla, Fanny, Dalton, Gavin, De Frondat, Fatima, Evans, Chris, Mignant, David Le, Puech, Mathieu, Rodrigues, Myriam, Taburet, Sylvestre, Tasca, Lidia, Yang, Yanbin, Zanchetta, Sandrine, Butterley, Timothy, Conan, Jean-Marc, Dohlen, Kjetil, Dubbeldam, Marc, Hadi, Kacem El, Janssen, Annemieke, Fusco, Thierry, Kelz, Andreas, Larrieu, Marie, Lewis, Ian, Lim, Caroline, MacIntosh, Mike, Morris, Tim, Navarro, Ramon, Seifert, Walter

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08393

The Data Processing Pipeline for the MUSE Instrument

Authors: Weilbacher, Peter M., Palsa, Ralf, Streicher, Ole, Bacon, Roland, Urrutia, Tanya, Wisotzki, Lutz, Conseil, Simon, Husemann, Bernd, Jarno, Aurélien, Kelz, Andreas, Pécontal-Rousset, Arlette, Richard, Johan, Roth, Martin M., Selman, Fernando, Vernet, Joël

Source: A&A 641, A28 (2020)

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08638

BlueMUSE: Project Overview and Science Cases

Authors: Richard, Johan, Bacon, Roland, Blaizot, Jérémy, Boissier, Samuel, Boselli, Alessandro, NicolasBouché, Brinchmann, Jarle, Castro, Norberto, Ciesla, Laure, Crowther, Paul, Daddi, Emanuele, Dreizler, Stefan, Duc, Pierre-Alain, Elbaz, David, Epinat, Benoit, Evans, Chris, Fossati, Matteo, Fumagalli, Michele, Garcia, Miriam, Garel, Thibault, Hayes, Matthew, Adamo, Angela, Herrero, Artemio, Hugot, Emmanuel, Humphrey, Andrew, Jablonka, Pascale, Kamann, Sebastian, Kaper, Lex, Kelz, Andreas, Kneib, Jean-Paul, de Koter, Alex, Krajnović, Davor, Kudritzki, Rolf-Peter, Langer, Norbert, Lardo, Carmela, Leclercq, Floriane, Lennon, Danny, Mahler, Guillaume, Martins, Fabrice, Massey, Richard, Mitchell, Peter, Monreal-Ibero, Ana, Najarro, Paco, Opitom, Cyrielle, Papaderos, Polychronis, Péroux, Céline, Revaz, Yves, Roth, Martin M., Rousselot, Philippe, Sander, Andreas, Wagemann, Charlotte Simmonds, Smail, Ian, Swinbank, Anthony Mark, Tramper, Frank, Urrutia, Tanya, Verhamme, Anne, Vink, Jorick, Walsh, Jeremy, Weilbacher, Peter, Wendt, Martin, Wisotzki, Lutz, Yang, Bin

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01657

Cluster kinematics and stellar rotation in NGC 419 with MUSE and adaptive optics

Authors: Kamann, Sebastian, Bastian, Nathan J., Husser, Tim-Oliver, Martocchia, Silvia, Usher, Christopher, Brok, Mark den, Dreizler, Stefan, Kelz, Andreas, Krajnović, Davor, Richard, Johan, Steinmetz, Matthias, Weilbacher, Peter M.

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10612

The ELT-MOS (MOSAIC): towards the construction phase

Authors: Morris, Simon, Hammer, François, Jagourel, Pascal, Evans, Christopher J., Puech, Mathieu, Dalton, Gavin B., Rodrigues, Myriam, Sanchez-Janssen, Ruben, Fitzsimons, Ewan, Barbuy, Beatriz, Cuby, Jean-Gabriel, Kaper, Lex, Roth, Martin, Rousset, Gérard, Myers, Richard, Fèvre, Olivier Le, Finogenov, Alexis, Kotilainen, Jari, Castilho, Bruno, Ostlin, Goran, Feltzing, Sofia, Korn, Andreas, Gallego, Jesus, Morales, África Castillo, Iglesias-Páramo, Jorge, Pentericci, Laura, Ziegler, Bodo, Afonso, Jose, Dubbledam, Marc, Close, Madeline, Parr-Burman, Phil, Morris, Timothy J., Chemla, Fanny, De Frondat, Fatima, Kelz, Andreas, Guinouard, Isabelle, Lewis, Ian J., Middleton, Kevin, Navarro, Ramon, Pragt, Marie LarrieuJohan, Janssen, Annemieke, Dohlen, Kjetil, Hadi, Kacem El, Gendron, Éric, Yang, Yanbin, Wells, Martyn, Conan, Jean-Marc, Fusco, Thierry, Schaerer, Daniel, Bergin, Ted, Taburet, Sylvestre, Frotin, Mickaël, Berkourn, Nadia

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00720

The Potsdam MRS Spectrograph - heritage of MUSE and the impact of cross-innovation in the process of technology transfer

Authors: Moralejo, Benito, Roth, Martin M., Godefroy, Philippe, Fechner, Thomas, Bauer, Svend M., Schmälzlin, Elmar, Kelz, Andreas, Haynes, Roger

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01269

Multi-Object Spectroscopy with MUSE

Authors: Kelz, Andreas, Kamann, Sebastian, Urrutia, Tanya, Weilbacher, Peter, Wisotzki, Lutz, Bacon, Roland

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03329

MOSAIC: a Multi-Object Spectrograph for the E-ELT

Authors: Kelz, Andreas, Hammer, Francois, Jagourel, Pascal, consortium, the MOSAIC

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00777

A MUSE map of the central Orion Nebula (M 42)

Authors: Weilbacher, Peter M., Monreal-Ibero, Ana, Kollatschny, Wolfram, Ginsburg, Adam, McLeod, Anna F., Kamann, Sebastian, Sandin, Christer, Palsa, Ralf, Wisotzki, Lutz, Bacon, Roland, Selman, Fernando, Brinchmann, Jarle, Caruana, Joseph, Kelz, Andreas, Martinsson, Thomas, Pécontal-Rousset, Arlette, Richard, Johan, Wendt, Martin

Source: A&A 582, A114 (2015)

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.00006

The Influence of Motion and Stress on Optical Fibers

Authors: Murphy, Jeremy D., Hill, Gary J., MacQueen, Phillip J., Taylor, Trey, Soukup, Ian, Moreira, Walter, Cornell, Mark E., Good, John, Anderson, Seth, Fuller, Lindsay, Lee, Hanshin, Kelz, Andreas, Rafal, Marc, Rafferty, Tom, Tuttle, Sarah, Vattiat, Brian

Source: 2012SPIE.8446E..5FM

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0309

The ERA2 facility: towards application of a fiber-based astronomical spectrograph for imaging spectroscopy in life sciences

Authors: Roth, Martin M., Zenichowski, Karl, Tarcea, Nicolae, Popp, Jürgen, Adelhelm, Silvia, Stolz, Marvin, Kelz, Andreas, Sandin, Christer, Bauer, Svend-Marian, Fechner, Thomas, Jahn, Thomas, Popow, Emil, Roth, Bernhard, Singh, Paul, Srivastava, Mudit, Wolter, Dieter

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Medical Physics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3981

4MOST - 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope

Authors: de Jong, Roelof S., Bellido-Tirado, Olga, Chiappini, Cristina, Depagne, Éric, Haynes, Roger, Johl, Diane, Schnurr, Olivier, Schwope, Axel, Walcher, Jakob, Dionies, Frank, Haynes, Dionne, Kelz, Andreas, Kitaura, Francisco S., Lamer, Georg, Minchev, Ivan, Müller, Volker, Nuza, Sebastián E., Olaya, Jean-Christophe, Piffl, Tilmann, Popow, Emil, Steinmetz, Matthias, Ural, Uğur, Williams, Mary, Winkler, Roland, Wisotzki, Lutz, Ansorgb, Wolfgang R., Banerji, Manda, Solares, Eduardo Gonzalez, Irwin, Mike, Kennicutt Jr, Robert C., King, David, McMahon, Richard, Koposov, Sergey, Parry, Ian R., Walton, Nicholas A., Finger, Gert, Iwert, Olaf, Krumpe, Mirko, Lizon, Jean-Louis, Vincenzo, Mainieri, Amans, Jean-Philippe, Bonifacio, Piercarlo, Cohen, Mathieu, Francois, Patrick, Jagourel, Pascal, Mignot, Shan B., Royer, Frédéric, Sartoretti, Paola, Bender, Ralf, Grupp, Frank, Hess, Hans-Joachim, Lang-Bardl, Florian, Muschielok, Bernard, Böhringer, Hans, Boller, Thomas, Bongiorno, Angela, Brusa, Marcella, Dwelly, Tom, Merloni, Andrea, Nandra, Kirpal, Salvato, Mara, Pragt, Johannes H., Navarro, Ramón, Gerlofsma, Gerrit, Roelfsema, Ronald, Dalton, Gavin B., Middleton, Kevin F., Tosh, Ian A., Boeche, Corrado, Caffau, Elisabetta, Christlieb, Norbert, Grebel, Eva K., Hansen, Camilla, Koch, Andreas, Ludwig, Hans-G., Quirrenbach, Andreas, Sbordone, Luca, Seifert, Walter, Thimm, Guido, Trifonov, Trifon, Helmi, Amina, Trager, Scott C., Feltzing, Sofia, Korn, Andreas, Boland, Wilfried

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6885

HETDEX pilot survey for emission-line galaxies - I. Survey design, performance, and catalog

Authors: Adams, Joshua J., Blanc, Guillermo A., Hill, Gary J., Gebhardt, Karl, Drory, Niv, Hao, Lei, Bender, Ralf, Byun, Joyce, Ciardullo, Robin, Cornell, Mark E., Finkelstein, Steven L., Fry, Alex, Gawiser, Eric, Gronwall, Caryl, Hopp, Ulrich, Jeong, Donghui, Kelz, Andreas, Kelzenberg, Ralf, Komatsu, Eiichiro, MacQueen, Phillip J., Murphy, Jeremy, Odoms, P. Samuel, Roth, Martin, Schneider, Donald P., Tufts, Joseph R., Wilkinson, Christopher P.

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.0426