NEXT GENERATION GEMINI INSTRUMENTS
The Aspen Process
“New Instrumentation for the Gemini Telescopes” June 2007 issue of Gemini Focus, pp. 6-12
“The Gemini Planet Imager” June 2006 issue of NOAO/NSO Newsletter, pp. 15-16
“Why the Aspen Program Now”
Includes discussion of the Aspen decision-making process; Figure 1 shows awards of design and feasibility studies for these instruments.
December 2005 issue of Gemini Focus (pp. 7-15)
“Following the Aspen Process: Presentations and Reviews”
Update on HRNIRS and Ex AOC conceptual design studies, and WFMOS and GLAO feasibility studies.
June 2005 issue of NOAO/NSO Newsletter (#82, pp. 18-19)
“Following the Aspen Process: The Gemini Wide-field Multi-Object spectrograph (WFMOS)”
March 2005 issue of NOAO/NSO Newsletter (#81, pp. 16-17)
“Following the Aspen Process: Extreme Adaptive Optics Coronagraph”
December 2004 issue of NOAO/NSO Newsletter (#80, p. 14)
“Following the Aspen Process: A High-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectrograph”
September 2004 issue of NOAO/NSO Newsletter (#79, pp. 15-16)
“Gemini Next-Generation Instrumentation: Progress and Opportunities”
March 2004 issue of NOAO/NSO Newsletter (#77, pp. 20-21)
“Gemini Next-Generation Instrumentation Planning”
September 2003 issue of NOAO/NSO Newsletter (#75, p. 20)
“Gemini Next-Generation Instrumentation Planning”
March 2003 issue of NOAO/NSO Newsletter (#73, p. 14)
Aspen Meeting—international meeting of Gemini and National Gemini Office staff, organized by Gemini
- Gemini Next-Generation Instrumentation Workshop (3.23MB)
Aspen, CO, June 27-28, 2003 - Future Science at Gemini: New Horizons, New Science, New Tools
- Aspen Program Update and Announcements of Opportunity
Tempe Meeting—meeting of US astronomers, organized by NOAO Gemini Science Center
- Future Instrumentation for the Gemini 8-m Telescopes: U.S. Perspective in 2003
Tempe, AZ, May 30-31, 2003 - “Gemini Next-Generation Instrumentation Planning”
September 2003 issue of NOAO/NSO Newsletter (#75, p. 20)
KAOS Meeting—organized by NOAO Gemini Science Center
- KAOS (A Wide-Field MOS Concept for Gemini) Science Working Group Meeting
Hilo, HI and Tucson, AZ, January 23-24, 2003 - KAOS Web site
Aspen Instruments
- Extreme Adaptive Optics Coronagraph (ExAOC) [now GPI]
- Wide-Field Fiber Multi-Object Spectrometer (WFMOS) [based on KAOS concept]
- High-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectrograph (HRNIRS) [PRVS is its offspring]
- Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics (GLAO)
