Status Report of GMTNIRS Development

  • Yuk, In-Soo (Korea Astronomy & Space Science institute) ;
  • Lee, Sung-Ho (Korea Astronomy & Space Science institute) ;
  • Chun, Moo-Young (Korea Astronomy & Space Science institute) ;
  • Kim, Kang-Min (Korea Astronomy & Space Science institute) ;
  • Park, Chan (Korea Astronomy & Space Science institute) ;
  • Pak, Soo-Jong (School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Oh, Hee-Young (Korea Astronomy & Space Science institute) ;
  • Lee, Sang-On (Korea Astronomy & Space Science institute) ;
  • Lee, Han-Shin (Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin) ;
  • Jaffe, Daniel T. (Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin) ;
  • Pyo, Tae-Soo (Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) ;
  • Park, Byeong-Gon (Korea Astronomy & Space Science institute) ;
  • Kim, Young-Soo (Korea Astronomy & Space Science institute) ;
  • Kyeong, Jae-Mann (Korea Astronomy & Space Science institute)
  • Published : 2010.04.06

Abstract

GMTNIRS (the GMT Near Infrared Spectrograph) is one of the first generation instrument candidates for GMT (Giant Magellan Telescope). Conceptual design studies for nine instruments were proposed last year, and the GMT organization selected 6 instruments including GMTNIRS for the next phase. GMTNIRS will be developed by an international collaboration between KASI and UT(University of Texas). KASI and UT have been also developing IGRINS (the Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrometer) which is a fore-runner instrument of GMTNIRS since 2009. In this talk, we will present the instrument details and development plan, and discuss the science case for GMTNIRS.

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