TY - GEN
T1 - SDSS-V local volume mapper instrument
T2 - Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII 2020
AU - Konidaris, Nicholas P.
AU - Drory, Niv
AU - Froning, Cynthia S.
AU - Hebert, Anthony
AU - Bilgi, Pavan
AU - Blanc, Guillermo A.
AU - Lanz, Alicia E.
AU - Hull, Charles L.
AU - Kollmeier, Juna A.
AU - Ramirez, Solange
AU - Wachter, Stefanie
AU - Kreckel, Kathryn
AU - Pak, Soojong
AU - Pellegrini, Eric
AU - Almeida, Andr'es
AU - Case, Scott
AU - Zhelem, Ross
AU - Feger, Tobias
AU - Lawrence, Jon
AU - Lesser, Michael
AU - Herbst, Tom
AU - Sanchez-Gallego, Jose
AU - Bershady, Matthew A.
AU - Chattopadhyay, Sabyasachi
AU - Hauser, Andrew
AU - Smith, Michael
AU - Wolf, Marsha J.
AU - Yan, Renbin
N1 - Funding Information: Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS acknowledges support and resources from the Center for HighPerformance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS web site is www.sdss5.org. SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS Collaboration, including the Carnegie Institution for Science, Chilean National Time Allocation Committee (CNTAC) ratified researchers, the Gotham Participation Group, Harvard University, The Johns Hopkins University, L'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Nanjing University, National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC), New Mexico State University, The Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the Stellar Astrophysics Participation Group, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Arizona, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Toronto, University of Utah, University of Virginia, and Yale University. Funding Information: Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS acknowledges support and resources from the Center for HighPerformance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS web site is www.sdss5.org. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 SPIE
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) is an all-sky spectroscopic survey of >6 million objects, designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, reveal the inner workings of stars, investigate the origin of solar systems, and track the growth of supermassive black holes across the Universe. The Local Volume Mapper (LVM) is a facility designed to provide a contiguous 2,500 deg2 integral-field survey over a 3.5 year period from Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. In this paper we provide an overview and status update for the LVM instrument (hereafter LVM-I). Each integral-field unit's spaxel probes linear scales that are sub-parsec (Milky Way) to ∼10 pc (Magellanic Clouds) which is accomplished with an angular diameter of 36.9". LVM's spectral resolution is R = λ/∆λ ∼ 4, 000 which probes velocities of 33 kms-1 (1 σ) from 365 nm to 950 nm. LVM uses four 16-cm telescopes feeding three spectrographs. One telescope carries the bulk of the science load with ∼1,800 fibers coupled to the field via a pair of lenslet arrays, two telescopes are used to measure the night sky spectra in fields that flank the science field, and a fourth telescope contemporaneously monitors bright standard stars to determine atmospheric extinction. We expect LVM-I to deliver percent-level precision on important line ratios down to a few Rayleigh. The three spectrographs are being built by Winlight corporation in France based on those for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). In this paper we present the high-level system design of LVM-I including the lenslet-coupled fiber IFUs, telescopes, guiding+acquisition system, calibration systems, enclosures, and spectrographs.
AB - The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) is an all-sky spectroscopic survey of >6 million objects, designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, reveal the inner workings of stars, investigate the origin of solar systems, and track the growth of supermassive black holes across the Universe. The Local Volume Mapper (LVM) is a facility designed to provide a contiguous 2,500 deg2 integral-field survey over a 3.5 year period from Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. In this paper we provide an overview and status update for the LVM instrument (hereafter LVM-I). Each integral-field unit's spaxel probes linear scales that are sub-parsec (Milky Way) to ∼10 pc (Magellanic Clouds) which is accomplished with an angular diameter of 36.9". LVM's spectral resolution is R = λ/∆λ ∼ 4, 000 which probes velocities of 33 kms-1 (1 σ) from 365 nm to 950 nm. LVM uses four 16-cm telescopes feeding three spectrographs. One telescope carries the bulk of the science load with ∼1,800 fibers coupled to the field via a pair of lenslet arrays, two telescopes are used to measure the night sky spectra in fields that flank the science field, and a fourth telescope contemporaneously monitors bright standard stars to determine atmospheric extinction. We expect LVM-I to deliver percent-level precision on important line ratios down to a few Rayleigh. The three spectrographs are being built by Winlight corporation in France based on those for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). In this paper we present the high-level system design of LVM-I including the lenslet-coupled fiber IFUs, telescopes, guiding+acquisition system, calibration systems, enclosures, and spectrographs.
KW - Instrumentation: integral field
KW - Instrumentation: spectrographs
KW - Techniques: spectroscopic
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2557565
DO - 10.1117/12.2557565
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII
A2 - Evans, Christopher J.
A2 - Bryant, Julia J.
A2 - Motohara, Kentaro
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 14 December 2020 through 22 December 2020
ER -