Current and future instrumentation at Gemini Observatory

Ruben Diaz; Stephen Goodsell; Paul Hirst; Hwihyun Kim; Scot Kleinman

doi:10.1117/12.2630481

29 August 2022 Current and future instrumentation at Gemini Observatory

Ruben Diaz, Stephen Goodsell, Paul Hirst, Hwihyun Kim, Scot Kleinman

Proceedings Volume 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX; 1218406 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630481
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Abstract

The Gemini Observatory* instrument program supports breakthrough research in areas like extrasolar planets, time domain astrophysics, dark matter and dark energy, with the best possible competitive instrumentation suite given technological and budget constraints. This talk will give a broad overview of Gemini's instrumentation program focusing on achievements, challenges and strategies. We report the status of the currently offered facility instruments and AO systems at each telescope. The facility instrument program offers a strong suite of capabilities with broad applicability, which can handle the largest share of science return and as a consequence concentrates the largest development efforts. We recently completed integration and started the commissioning of GHOST, a high-resolution optical spectrograph; we are starting the integration of SCORPIO, a simultaneous 8-channel, optical to infrared camera and spectrograph, and the integration of the near-infrared high-resolution spectrograph IGRINS-2. There has been continued progress on the design of the community lead multi-IFU MOAO spectrograph, GIRMOS, which will operate with GNAO, the future adaptive optics facility at Gemini North, which is also in its design stage. In addition, the visiting instrument and instrument upgrade programs support more unique observing modes, which might have narrow scope but potentially high scientific impact. We summarize the progress and next stage of the radial velocity spectrograph MAROON-X, the performance of the speckle imagers in each site, the ongoing improvements to the GeMS MCAO system at Gemini South, the upgrades of GPI prior to its relocation to Gemini North, and the start of the commissioning phase of the first of two IFUs for GNIRS at Gemini North.

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Ruben Diaz, Stephen Goodsell, Paul Hirst, Hwihyun Kim, and Scot Kleinman "Current and future instrumentation at Gemini Observatory", Proc. SPIE 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, 1218406 (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630481

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