titre : MOSAIC, the Multi-Object Spectrograph of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT)

The multi-object spectrograph will be the workhorse instrument for the E-ELT, being the biggest telescope in the world with its 39m diameter primary mirror. MOSAIC will be the world-leading MOS facility, contributing to all fields of contemporary astronomy, from extra-solar planets, to the study of the halo of the Milky Way and its satellites, and from resolved stellar populations in nearby galaxies out to observations of the earliest ‘first-light’ structures in the Universe.

Vue de l’instrument MOSAIC (en haut à droite) tel qu’il serait implémenté dans le futur télescope E-ELT. En fond d’image, apparaissent de nombreuses galaxies, faibles, que l’instrument pourra observer par centaines à la fois.

© NASA (fond de galaxies), ESO (dessin du télescope) & Consortium MOSAIC (dessin de l’instrument).

The ESO contract has been signed by the CNRS-INSU (Leading Institute of the MOSAIC Consortium).
The Consortium includes five Leading Countries

France,
United Kingdom,
The Netherlands,
Brazil
Germany,

and six Associated Partners

Austria,
Finland,
Italy,
Portugal,
Spain,
Sweden

The MOSAIC instrument will combine high multiplex and high spatial resolution to resolve important questions in astronomy and cosmology. It will investigate when the first galaxies are formed and how they aggregate into large galaxies such as the Milky Way. It will study the distribution of the dark and ordinary matter at all scales and age of the Universe. It will reveal important new insight into the physics of galaxies beyond the Local Group, study the Galactic Center and observe the evolution and formation of extra-solar planets.

Signature officielle à l’Observatoire de Paris du contrat pour l’étude de la phase-A de MOSAIC, futur spectrographe multi-objets destiné à équiper l’European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) de l’ESO.

© Observatoire de Paris

(*) The team includes Pascal Jagourel (Observatoire de Paris), Chris Evans (UK-ATC, Edinburgh), Mathieu Puech (Observatoire de Paris), Gavin Dalton (STFC-RALSPACE & Oxford Univ.), Myriam Rodrigues (Observatoire de Paris), Ewan Fitzsimons (STFC-UK-ATC, Edinburgh), Simon Morris (Durham Univ.), Beatriz Barbuy (IAG, Sao Paulo), Jean-Gabriel Cuby (LAM, Marseille), Lex Kaper (Amsterdam Univ.), Martin Roth (AIP, Potsdam), Gerard Rousset (Observatoire de Paris), Richard Myers (Durham Univ.), Olivier Le Fèvre (LAM, Marseille), Alexis Finogenov (Helsinki Univ.), Bruno Castilho (LNA, Itajuba), Goran Ostlin (Stockholm Univ.), Jesus Gallego (Madrid, Computense Univ.), Fabrizio Fiore (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), Bodo Ziegler (Vienna Univ.), Jose Afonso (IA, Lisbon Univ.), Marc Dubbledam (Durham Univ.), Phil Parr Burman (STFC-UK-ATC), Tim Morris (Durham Univ.), Tristan Buey (Observatoire de Paris), Fanny Chemla (Observatoire de Paris), Eric Gendron (Observatoire de Paris), Andreas Kelz (AIP, Potsdam), Isabelle Guinouard (Observatoire de Paris), Ian Lewis (Oxford Univ.), Kevin Middleton (STFC-RALSPACE, Oxford), Ramon Navarro (NOVA), Marie Larrieu (IRAP, Toulouse), Thierry Contini (IRAP, Toulouse), Kjetil Dohlen (LAM, Marseille), Niklas Harald (Goettingen Univ.), David Le Mignant (LAM, Marseille), Yanbin Yang (Observatoire de Paris).

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