The instrumentation program for the Thirty Meter Telescope

Luc Simard; David Crampton; Brent Ellerbroek; Corinne Boyer

doi:10.1117/12.930500

5 October 2012 The instrumentation program for the Thirty Meter Telescope

Luc Simard, David Crampton, Brent Ellerbroek, Corinne Boyer

Proceedings Volume 8446, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV; 84461F (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.930500
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

An overview of the current status of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) instrumentation program is presented. Science cases and operational concepts as well as their links to the instruments are continually revisited and updated through a series of workshops and conferences. Work on the three first-light instruments (WFOS IRIS, and IRMS) has made significant progress, and many groups in TMT partner communities are developing future instrument concepts. Other instrument-related subsystems are also receiving considerable attention given their importance to the scientific end-to-end performance of the Observatory. As an example, we describe aspects of the facility instrument cooling system that are crucially important to successful diffraction-limited observations on an extremely large telescope.

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Luc Simard, David Crampton, Brent Ellerbroek, and Corinne Boyer "The instrumentation program for the Thirty Meter Telescope", Proc. SPIE 8446, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, 84461F (5 October 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.930500

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