J. Richard, R. Giroud, F. Laurent, D. Krajnović, A. Jeanneau, R. Bacon, M. Abreu, A. Adamo, R. Araujo, N. F. Bouché, J. Brinchmann, Z. Cai, N. Castro, A. Calcines, D. Chapuis, A. Claeyssens, L. Cortese, E. Daddi, C. Davison, M. Goodwin, R. Harris, M. Hayes, M. Jauzac, A. Kelz, J. -P. Kneib, A. Lanotte, J. Lawrence, V. Le Bouteillier, R. Le Breton, M. D. Lehnert, Á. R. López-Sánchez, H. McGregor, A. F. McLeod, M. A. Monteiro, S. Morris, C. Opitom, A. Pécontal, M. M. Roth, D. Robertson, J. van de Sande, R. Smith, M. Steinmetz, M. Swinbank, T. Urrutia, A. Verhamme, P. M. Weilbacher, M. Wendt, F. Wildi, J. Zheng
Abstract
BlueMUSE is a blue-optimised, medium spectral resolution, panoramic integral eld spectrograph under development for the Very Large Telescope (VLT). With an optimised transmission down to 350 nm, spectral resolution of R~3500 on average across the wavelength range, and a large FoV (1 arcmin2), BlueMUSE will open up a new range of galactic and extragalactic science cases facilitated by its specific capabilities. The BlueMUSE consortium includes 9 institutes located in 7 countries and is led by the Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL). The BlueMUSE project development is currently in Phase A, with an expected rst light at the VLT in 2031. We introduce here the Top Level Requirements (TLRs) derived from the main science cases, and then present an overview of the BlueMUSE system and its subsystems ful lling these TLRs. We speci cally emphasize the tradeo s that are made and the key distinctions compared to the MUSE instrument, upon which the system architecture is built.
Keywords
Galactic astronomy; Equipment; Stars; Design; Sensors; Spectrographs; Spectral resolution; Image quality; Kinematics
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X
Kentaro Motohara Julia J. Bryant
SPIE
Proceedings of the SPIE
Volume 13096, Page 20
2024 July
