FMOS
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FMOS is a collaboration between the Japanese National Astronomical Observatory (NAOJ), the Anglo Australian Observatory (AAO), and a consortium of UK groups to design and construct a Prime Focus fibre fed IR spectrograph system for the Subaru telescope. The UK is responsible for the design and fabrication of two IR spectrographs.

The key feature of the spectrograph include:

  • Ability to observe 400 targets within a 30arcmin field of view
  • 0.9 to 1.8m m near infrared wavlengths
  • Innovative facility to reduce the atmospheric OH-airglow background signals

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Optical Layout
 

 

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Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii

 The FMOS Team

Rutherford Appleton Lab
Ian Tosh, Nick Waltham, Tim Froud,
Mukesh Patel, Allan Dowell, Guy Woodhouse

Durham University, Physics Dept.
David Robertson (UK Project Manager),
Graham Murray, Nigel Dipper

Oxford Univ., Astrophysics
Gavin Dalton (UK Project Scientist), Ian Lewis
Alan Holmes, Barney Brooks, David Bonfield

Kyoto University, Japan
Toshinori Maihara (PI)

Anglo Australian Obseravtory

 

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Ian A J Tosh
Tel        (44) 01235 445450
Fax       (44) 01235 445848
e-mail    I.A.J.Tosh@rl.ac.uk

Last revised 28/11/03