Subject: Possible Wide FoV IFS for the APO 3.5m

From: Ed Turner

Submitted: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:48:56 -0500 (EST)

Message number: 739 (previous: 738, next: 740 up: Index)

http://casa.colorado.edu/~bally/ARC_IFS/ARC_IFS/

contains a downloadable "white paper" (in MSWord and pdf formats) by John
Bally describing a possible wide field of view, integral field spectrograph 
for the APO 3.5m based on the potential availability of the CFH-12K  CCD 
mosaic to act as its detector.

The proposed instrument would give the telescope a powerful and unique 
observational capability/niche but would entail the most ambitious 
(expensive and complex) instrumentation project so far undertaken for the 
3.5-meter.

The Users Committee has already discussed this possible project and will 
discuss it again in future meetings, but as always and especially in view 
of the magnitude of the commitment that would be required to bring about 
the proposed instrument, broad input from as many members of the 3.5m 
community as possible is highly desirable.  Therefore, please have a look 
at the "white paper" available at the above web site and give your 
comments, anything from technical suggestions to indications of your 
personal interest or disinterest in using such an instrument, to your 
institutional User Cmte representative.  Please do not assume that "this 
will happen anyway at some point" if you do not take the trouble to 
express your views.

Ed Turner



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