Performance of the K-band multi-object spectrograph (KMOS) on the ESO VLT

Ray Sharples; Ralf Bender; Alex Agudo Berbel; Richard Bennett; Naidu Bezawada; Roberto Castillo; Michele Cirasuolo; Paul Clark; George Davidson; Richard Davies; Roger Davies; Marc Dubbeldam; Alasdair Fairley; Gert Finger; Natascha Förster Schreiber; Reinhard Genzel; Reinhold Haefner; Achim Hess; Ives Jung; Ian Lewis; David Montgomery; John Murray; Bernard Muschielok; Jeff Pirard; Suzanne Ramsay; Philip Rees II; Josef Richter; David Robertson; Ian Robson; Stephen Rolt; Roberto Saglia; Ivo Saviane; Joerg Schlichter; Linda Schmidtobreik; Alex Segovia; Alain Smette; Matthias Tecza; Stephen Todd; Michael Wegner; Erich Wiezorrek

doi:10.1117/12.2055496

8 July 2014 Performance of the K-band multi-object spectrograph (KMOS) on the ESO VLT

Ray Sharples, Ralf Bender, Alex Agudo Berbel, Richard Bennett, Naidu Bezawada, Roberto Castillo, Michele Cirasuolo, Paul Clark, George Davidson, Richard Davies, Roger Davies, Marc Dubbeldam, Alasdair Fairley, Gert Finger, Natascha Förster Schreiber, Reinhard Genzel, Reinhold Haefner, Achim Hess, Ives Jung, Ian Lewis, David Montgomery, John Murray, Bernard Muschielok, Jeff Pirard, Suzanne Ramsay, Philip Rees II, Josef Richter, David Robertson, Ian Robson, Stephen Rolt, Roberto Saglia, Ivo Saviane, Joerg Schlichter, Linda Schmidtobreik, Alex Segovia, Alain Smette, Matthias Tecza, Stephen Todd, Michael Wegner, Erich Wiezorrek

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Proceedings Volume 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V; 91470W (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055496
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

KMOS is a multi-object near-infrared integral field spectrograph built by a consortium of UK and German institutes for the ESO Paranal Observatory. We report on the on-sky performance verification of KMOS measured during three commissioning runs on the ESO VLT in 2012/13 and some of the early science results.

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Ray Sharples, Ralf Bender, Alex Agudo Berbel, Richard Bennett, Naidu Bezawada, Roberto Castillo, Michele Cirasuolo, Paul Clark, George Davidson, Richard Davies, Roger Davies, Marc Dubbeldam, Alasdair Fairley, Gert Finger, Natascha Förster Schreiber, Reinhard Genzel, Reinhold Haefner, Achim Hess, Ives Jung, Ian Lewis, David Montgomery, John Murray, Bernard Muschielok, Jeff Pirard, Suzanne Ramsay, Philip Rees II, Josef Richter, David Robertson, Ian Robson, Stephen Rolt, Roberto Saglia, Ivo Saviane, Joerg Schlichter, Linda Schmidtobreik, Alex Segovia, Alain Smette, Matthias Tecza, Stephen Todd, Michael Wegner, and Erich Wiezorrek "Performance of the K-band multi-object spectrograph (KMOS) on the ESO VLT", Proc. SPIE 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, 91470W (8 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055496

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