KMOS Contingency Payment
Lead Research Organisation:
Durham University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
KMOS is an advanced imaging spectrograph being constructed by a consortium of UK and German institutes as one of
a suite of second generation instruments for the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope (ESO VLT) in
Chile. KMOS uses a technique known as integral field spectroscopy to dissect the images of astronomical sources and
produce individual spectra for different regions within a single target. KMOS will operate in the near-infrared part of the
spectrum (1-2.5 microns wavelength) and will offer a multi-object capability to observe up to 24 sources simultaneously
within a 7 arcmin field of view, which will be unique at these wavelengths. The primary science drivers for KMOS are to
observe the evolution and mass assembly of distant galaxies in the early universe and to study resolved sites of star
formation in low redshift galaxies. Durham will provide the Principal Investigator for the project, the pickoff module which
relays the light from selected targets within the telescope field of view, and the integral field module which uses micro-
machined image slicers to dissect the light from each selected target.
a suite of second generation instruments for the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope (ESO VLT) in
Chile. KMOS uses a technique known as integral field spectroscopy to dissect the images of astronomical sources and
produce individual spectra for different regions within a single target. KMOS will operate in the near-infrared part of the
spectrum (1-2.5 microns wavelength) and will offer a multi-object capability to observe up to 24 sources simultaneously
within a 7 arcmin field of view, which will be unique at these wavelengths. The primary science drivers for KMOS are to
observe the evolution and mass assembly of distant galaxies in the early universe and to study resolved sites of star
formation in low redshift galaxies. Durham will provide the Principal Investigator for the project, the pickoff module which
relays the light from selected targets within the telescope field of view, and the integral field module which uses micro-
machined image slicers to dissect the light from each selected target.
Planned Impact
KMOS has required the development of a number of new technologies with wider applications, including the use of cryogenic positioning robots and process control for the production and test of large numbers of precision diamond-machined optical surfaces.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Ray Sharples (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
{Sharples}, R. And {Bender}, R. And {Agudo Berbel}, A. And {Bennett}, R. And {Bezawada}, N. And {Cirasuolo}, M. And {Clark}, P. And {Davidson}, G. And {Davies}, R. And {Davies}, R. And {Dubbeldam}, M. And {Fairley}, A. And {Finger}, G. And {Genzel}, R. And {Haefner}, R. And {Hess}, A. And {Lewis}, I. And {Montgomery}, D. And {Murray}, J. And {Muschielok}, B. And {F{\"o}rster-Schreiber}, N. And {Pirard}, J. And {Ramsay}, S. And {Rees}, P. And {Richter}, J. And {Robertson}, D. And {Robson}, I. An
(2012)
Status of the KMOS multi-object near-infrared integral field spectrograph
{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
Wuyts Stijn
(2016)
KMOS-3D: The Mass Budget In Early Star-Forming Disks
in Discs in galaxies (Discs 2016)
Wuyts E
(2014)
A CONSISTENT STUDY OF METALLICITY EVOLUTION AT 0.8 < z < 2.6
in The Astrophysical Journal
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
Swinbank A. M.
(2017)
Angular momentum evolution of galaxies over the past 10 Gyr: A MUSE and KMOS dynamical survey of 400 star-forming galaxies from z = 0.3-1.7
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Stott J
(2016)
The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): dynamical properties, gas and dark matter fractions of typical z ~ 1 star-forming galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Stott J
(2014)
A relationship between specific star formation rate and metallicity gradient within z ~ 1 galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sobral D
(2013)
THE DYNAMICS OF z = 0.8 Ha-SELECTED STAR-FORMING GALAXIES FROM KMOS/CF-HiZELS
in The Astrophysical Journal
Prichard L
(2017)
The KMOS Cluster Survey (KCS). III. Fundamental Plane of Cluster Galaxies at z ? 1.80 in JKCS 041*
in The Astrophysical Journal