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Paper Abstract
KOALA, the Kilofibre Optimised Astronomical Lenslet Array, is a wide-field, high efficiency integral field unit
being designed for use with the bench mounted AAOmega spectrograph on the AAT. KOALA will have 1000
fibres in a rectangular array with a selectable field of view of either 1390 or 430 sq. arcseconds with a spatial
sampling of 1.25" or 0.7" respectively. To achieve this KOALA will use a telecentric double lenslet array with
interchangeable fore-optics. The IFU will feed AAOmega via a 31m fibre run. The efficiency of KOALA is
expected to be ≈ 52% at 3700A and ≈ 66% at 6563°Å with a throughput of > 52% over the entire wavelength
range.
Paper Details
Date Published: 24 September 2012
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 8446, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, 84460V (24 September 2012); doi: 10.1117/12.925812
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8446:
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
Ian S. McLean; Suzanne K. Ramsay; Hideki Takami, Editor(s)
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 8446, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, 84460V (24 September 2012); doi: 10.1117/12.925812
Show Author Affiliations
S. C. Ellis, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
M. Ireland, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
Macquarie Univ. (Australia)
J. S. Lawrence, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
J. Tims, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
N. Staszak, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
J. Brzeski, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
Q. A. Parker, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
Macquarie Univ. (Australia)
R. Sharp, Australian National Univ. (Australia)
J. Bland-Hawthorn, Sydney Institute for Astronomy, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)
M. Ireland, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
Macquarie Univ. (Australia)
J. S. Lawrence, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
J. Tims, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
N. Staszak, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
J. Brzeski, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
Q. A. Parker, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
Macquarie Univ. (Australia)
R. Sharp, Australian National Univ. (Australia)
J. Bland-Hawthorn, Sydney Institute for Astronomy, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)
S. Case, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
M. Colless, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
S. Croom, Sydney Institute for Astronomy, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)
W. Couch, Swinburne Univ. of Technology (Australia)
O. De Marco, Macquarie Univ. (Australia)
K. Glazebrook, Swinburne Univ. of Technology (Australia)
W. Saunders, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
R. Webster, The Univ. of Melbourne (Australia)
D. B. Zucker, Macquarie Univ. (Australia)
M. Colless, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
S. Croom, Sydney Institute for Astronomy, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)
W. Couch, Swinburne Univ. of Technology (Australia)
O. De Marco, Macquarie Univ. (Australia)
K. Glazebrook, Swinburne Univ. of Technology (Australia)
W. Saunders, Australian Astronomical Observatory (Australia)
R. Webster, The Univ. of Melbourne (Australia)
D. B. Zucker, Macquarie Univ. (Australia)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8446:
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
Ian S. McLean; Suzanne K. Ramsay; Hideki Takami, Editor(s)
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