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The HARMONI/ELT spectrographs

Abstract

HARMONI is an Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) for ESO’s ELT. It has been selected as the first light spec- trograph and will provide the workhorse spectroscopic capabilities for the ELT for many years. HARMONI is currently at the PDR-level and the current design for the HARMONI IFS consists of a number of spaxel scales sampling down to the diffraction limit of the telescope. It uses a field splitter and image slicer to divide the field into 4 sub-units, each providing an input slit to one of four nearly identical spectrographs. All spectrographs will operate at near infrared wavelengths (0.81-2.45 micrometers), sampling different parts of the spectrum with a range of spectral resolving powers (3300, 7000, 18000). In addition, two of the four spectrographs will have a Visible capability (0.5-0.83 micrometers) operating with seeing-limited observations. This proceeding presents an overview of the opto-mechanical design and specifications of the spectrograph units for HARMONI.

Authors

Rodrigues MA; Capone J; Earle A; Foster T; Hidalgo A; Lewis I; Lynn J; O'brien K; Tosh I; George EM

Volume

10702

Publisher

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics

Publication Date

July 12, 2018

DOI

10.1117/12.2313396

Name of conference

Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
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