SWIFT: Spectroscopic WIde Field Telescope

A. Dey, J. Najita, G. Jacoby, S. Barden, C. Claver, C. Harmer

 

• Contents
• List of Tables
• A SPECTROSCOPIC FACILITY FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM
• SWIFT SCIENCE
  • The Growth of Structure
  • Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
  • Formation of the Milky Way and Its Neighbors
    • Formation of Galactic Halos
    • Formation and Evolution of the Galactic Disk
    • Age of the Disk and Halo
• SYNERGY WITH GROUND-BASED IMAGING SURVEYS
• SYNERGY WITH SPACE-BASED MISSIONS
• TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF SWIFT
  • The Front-End Optics: Telescope + Corrector
  • The Spectrograph Optics
  • New High-Efficiency Grating Technology
  • Slitlet Density with SWIFT
  • Detector Requirements
  • Software
  • Technical Challenges
    • Slit-Mask Technology
    • Scattered Light Reduction
    • Adaptive Optics
  • A Rough Cost Estimate
• Acknowledgements

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