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18 July 2024 Front optics design of TIFR-ARIES Multi-Object Optical to Near Infrared Spectrometer (TA-MOONS)
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Abstract
TA-MOONS is a multi-object Optical to Near Infrared (NIR) spectrometer with the primary science cases to conduct a spectroscopic survey of Young Stellar Objects (YSO’s) at visible as well as at NIR wavebands simultaneously at a spectroscopic resolution of R~2700. The wavelength coverage of this instrument is from 0.36-2.50 microns. The instrument is jointly developed by TIFR and ARIES, designed for 3.6 meter Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT)1 as a second generation main port instrument. The instrument is capable of observing 8-sources simultaneously within the sky field of view (FoV) of 12 arcmin diameter with its front optics deployable slit (DS) technique. These are mirror based 8-pickup arms located around the telescope focal plane. The DS is a novel concept consisting of tiny mirror-based arms having translation and rotational motion to pick up the source within each arm’s patrol field. This manuscript presents the optical design of front optics and probe viewer/calibration optics. Conceptual idea of the two-arm spectrometer also presented.
(2024) Published by SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
S. S. Poojary, B. Krishna Reddy, Joe P. Ninan, Harshit Shah, D. K. Ojha, Saurabh Sharma, Varghese Reji, Arun Surya, Purvi Udhwani, S. L. D'Costa, M. B. Naik, B. Mookerjea, Manoj Puravankara, Shriharsh Tendulkar, R. B. Jadhav, P. R. Sandimani, S. M. Gharat, S. B. Bhagat, and Krushna Jadhav "Front optics design of TIFR-ARIES Multi-Object Optical to Near Infrared Spectrometer (TA-MOONS)", Proc. SPIE 13096, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X, 130968S (18 July 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019724
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