SNAP focal plane

/ Authors

M. Lampton, C. Bebek, C. Akerlof, G. Aldering, R. Amanullah, P. Astier, E. Barrelet, L. Bergstrom, J. Bercovitz, G. Bernstein

and 63 more authors

M. Bester, A. Bonissent, C. Bower, W. Carithers, E. Commins, C. Day, S. Deustua, R. Digennaro, A. Ealet, R. Ellis, M. Eriksson, A. Fruchter, J. Genat, G. Goldhaber, A. Goobar, D. Groom, S. Harris, P. Harvey, H. Heetderks, S. Holland, D. Huterer, A. Karcher, A. Kim, W. Kolbe, B. Krieger, R. Lafever, J. Lamoureux, M. Levi, D. Levin, E. Linder, S. Loken, R. Malina, R. Massey, T. Mckay, S. McKee, R. Miquel, E. Moertsell, N. Mostek, S. Mufson, J. Musser, P. Nugent, H. Oluseyi, R. Pain, N. Palaio, D. Pankow, S. Perlmutter, R. Pratt, É. Prieto, A. Réfrégier, J. Rhodes, K. Robinson, N. Roe, M. Sholl, M. Schubnell, G. Smadja, G. Smoot, A. Spadafora, G. Tarlé, A. Tomasch, H. von der Lippe, D. Vincent, J. Walder, Guobin Wang

/ Abstract

The proposed SuperNova/Acceleration Probe (SNAP) mission will have a two-meter class telescope delivering diffraction-limited images to an instrumented 0.7 square-degree field sensitive in the visible and near-infrared wavelength regime. We describe the requirements for the instrument suite and the evolution of the focal plane design to the present concept in which all the instrumentation -- visible and near-infrared imagers, spectrograph, and star guiders -- share one common focal plane.

Journal: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation

DOI: 10.1117/12.459953