GEONIS
The Gemini Efficient Optical and Near-infrared Imager and Spectrograph (GEONIS)
instrument concept is an efficient two-channel spectrograph and imager with wavelength coverage spanning 0.4 to 1.6 microns
(µm). It is designed from the ground up as
an observing system that uses new detectors, atmospheric dispersion correction, and
a slit-viewing camera to maximize science
collecting time and minimize overhead.
Figure 3.
Schematic of the
MOVIES instrument
layout.
The astronomical landscape in the coming
decade will be dominated by wide-field
synoptic surveys, and GEONIS is driven to
both classify and study transient events
over a wide wavelength range in a single
exposure. It also has broad reach across a
variety of observational disciplines — from
characterizing transiting exoplanets to pinning down the location of near-Earth asteroids, high redshift galaxies, and stars of unusual metallicity.
The study is being led by Nick Konidaris and
managed by Dan Reiley, both at the California Institute of Technology. Main collaborators include astronomers at the University
of Colorado Boulder, Penn State University,
University of Toronto, the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, and the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory.
For more information on the GEONIS study,
please contact:
Nick Konidaris (PI): [email protected]
Dan Reiley (PM): [email protected]
MOVIES
The Montreal-Ohio-VIctoria Echelle Spect ɽ