KMOS - Commissioning Costs

Lead Research Organisation: Durham University
Department Name: Physics

Abstract

KMOS is a multi-object near-integral field spectrograph under construction for the ESO VLT. This grant covers the expected costs of commissioning of the complete instrument at Paranal Observatory in Chile during 2012.

Planned Impact

See grant ST/K000861/1.

Publications

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Houghton R. C. W. (2016) The KMOS GTO Cluster Program: Absorption Line Spectroscopy of Cluster Galaxies at z~1.5 in Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields

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{Dubbeldam}, C.~M. And {Clark}, P. And {Content}, R. And {Kirby}, A.~K. And {Parkin}, K. And {Robertson}, D.~J. And {Rolt}, S. And {Ryder}, D.~A. And {Sharples}, R.~M. (2012) The KMOS Integral Field System: fabrication, alignment, and test of 1000+ optical surfaces

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Tiley A (2016) The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): the Tully-Fisher relation at z ~ 1 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Davies R (2013) The Software Package for Astronomical Reductions with KMOS: SPARK in Astronomy & Astrophysics