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View article: Hector Galaxy Survey: Data processing, quality control, and early science
Hector Galaxy Survey: Data processing, quality control, and early science Open
The Hector Galaxy Survey is a new optical integral field spectroscopy (IFS) survey currently using the Anglo-Australian Telescope to observe up to 15 000 galaxies at low redshift ( $z \lt 0.1$ ). The Hector instrument employs 21 optical fi…
View article: Leveraging Quantum Technologies to Address the Next Pandemic
Leveraging Quantum Technologies to Address the Next Pandemic Open
Will Saunders discusses quantum computing technologies and their ability to speed up our manufacturing processes through synthesizing new medications and detect deficiencies in our current supply chain structures to combat widespread disea…
View article: Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Low Moderate Resolution Spectrograph\n Conceptual Design
Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Low Moderate Resolution Spectrograph\n Conceptual Design Open
The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) Project is a planned replacement\nfor the existing 3.6-m Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) into a 10-m class\ndedicated wide field highly multiplexed fibre fed spectroscopic facility. MSE\nseek…
View article: Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Low Moderate Resolution Spectrograph Conceptual Design
Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Low Moderate Resolution Spectrograph Conceptual Design Open
The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) Project is a planned replacement for the existing 3.6-m Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) into a 10-m class dedicated wide field highly multiplexed fibre fed spectroscopic facility. MSE seeks t…
View article: Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE): a preliminary design of multi-object high resolution spectrograph
Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE): a preliminary design of multi-object high resolution spectrograph Open
The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) project will transform the CFHT 3.6m optical telescope to a 10m class dedicated multi-object spectroscopic facility, with an ability to measure thousands of objects with three spectral resolution m…
View article: The science calibration challenges of next generation highly multiplexed optical spectroscopy: the case of the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer
The science calibration challenges of next generation highly multiplexed optical spectroscopy: the case of the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Open
MSE is an 11.25m telescope with a 1.5 sq.deg. field of view. It can simultaneously obtain 3249 spectra at R=3000 from 360-1800nm, and 1083 spectra at R=40000 in the optical. The large field of view, large number of targets, as well as the …
View article: Sphinx: a massively multiplexed fiber positioner for MSE
Sphinx: a massively multiplexed fiber positioner for MSE Open
In this paper we present the Australian Astronomical Observatory's concept design for Sphinx - a fiber positioned with 4332 spines on a 7.77mm pitch for CFHT's Mauna Kea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) Telescope. Based on the Echidna technolo…
View article: SPOKES: An end-to-end simulation facility for spectroscopic cosmological surveys
SPOKES: An end-to-end simulation facility for spectroscopic cosmological surveys Open
View article: SPOKES: an End-to-End Simulation Facility for Spectroscopic Cosmological Surveys
SPOKES: an End-to-End Simulation Facility for Spectroscopic Cosmological Surveys Open
The nature of dark matter, dark energy and large-scale gravity pose some of the most pressing questions in cosmology today. These fundamental questions require highly precise measurements, and a number of wide-field spectroscopic survey in…