The second generation VLT instrument MUSE:: Science drivers and instrument design

被引：30

作者：

Bacon, R ^{[1
]}

Bauer, S ^{[1
]}

Bower, R ^{[1
]}

Cabrit, S ^{[1
]}

Cappellari, M ^{[1
]}

Carollo, M ^{[1
]}

Combes, FO ^{[1
]}

Davies, R ^{[1
]}

Delabre, B ^{[1
]}

Dekker, H ^{[1
]}

Devriendt, J ^{[1
]}

Djidel, S ^{[1
]}

Duchateau, M ^{[1
]}

Dubois, JP ^{[1
]}

Emsellem, E ^{[1
]}

Ferruit, P ^{[1
]}

Franx, M ^{[1
]}

Gilmore, G ^{[1
]}

Guiderdoni, B ^{[1
]}

Hénault, F ^{[1
]}

Hubin, N ^{[1
]}

Jungwiert, B ^{[1
]}

Kelz, A ^{[1
]}

Le Louarn, M ^{[1
]}

Lewis, I ^{[1
]}

Lizon, JL ^{[1
]}

Mc Dermid, R ^{[1
]}

Morris, S ^{[1
]}

Laux, U ^{[1
]}

Le Fevre, O ^{[1
]}

Lantz, B ^{[1
]}

Lilly, S ^{[1
]}

Lynn, J ^{[1
]}

Pasquin, L ^{[1
]}

Pécontal, A ^{[1
]}

Popovic, PPD ^{[1
]}

Quirrenbach, A ^{[1
]}

Reiss, R ^{[1
]}

Roth, M ^{[1
]}

Steinmetz, M ^{[1
]}

Stuik, R ^{[1
]}

Wisotzki, L ^{[1
]}

de Zeeuw, T ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Observ Lyon, CRAL, F-69230 St Genis Laval, France

来源：

GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY, PTS 1-3 | 2004年 / 5492卷

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D O I：

10.1117/12.549009

中图分类号：

V [航空、航天];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0825 ;

摘要：

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is a second generation VLT panoramic integral-field spectrograph operating in the visible wavelength range. MUSE has a field of 1x1 arcmin(2) sampled at 0.20.2 arcsec(2) and is assisted by a ground layer adaptive optics system using four laser guide stars. The simultaneous spectral range is 0.465-0.93 mum, at a resolution of Rsimilar to3000. MUSE couples the discovery potential of a large imaging device to the measuring capabilities of a high-quality spectrograph, while taking advantage of the increased spatial resolution provided by adaptive optics. This makes MUSE a unique and tremendously powerful instrument for discovering and characterizing objects that lie beyond the reach of even the deepest imaging surveys. MUSE has also a high spatial resolution mode with 7.5x7.5 arcsec(2) field of view sampled at 25 milli-arcsec. In this mode MUSE should be able to get diffraction limited data-cube in the 0.6-1 mum wavelength range. Although MUSE design has been optimized for the study of galaxy formation and evolution, it has a wide range of possible applications; e.g. monitoring of outer planets atmosphere, young stellar objects environment, supermassive black holes and active nuclei in nearby galaxies or massive spectroscopic survey of stellar fields.

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页码：1145 / 1149

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