The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer: The Composition and Dynamics of the Faint Universe

Alan McConnachie; Carine Babusiaux; Michael Balogh; Simon Driver; Pat Côté; Helene Courtois; Luke Davies; Laura Ferrarese; Sarah Gallagher; Rodrigo Ibata; Nicolas Martin; Aaron Robotham; Kim Venn; Eva Villaver; Jo Bovy; Alessandro Boselli; Matthew Colless; Johan Comparat; Kelly Denny; Pierre-Alain Duc; Sara Ellison; Richard de Grijs; Mirian Fernandez-Lorenzo; Ken Freeman; Raja Guhathakurta; Patrick Hall; Andrew Hopkins; Mike Hudson; Andrew Johnson; Nick Kaiser; Jun Koda; Iraklis Konstantopoulos; George Koshy; Khee-Gan Lee; Adi Nusser; Anna Pancoast; Eric Peng; Celine Peroux; Patrick Petitjean; Christophe Pichon; Bianca Poggianti; Carlo Schmid; Prajval Shastri; Yue Shen; Chris Willot; Scott Croom; Rosine Lallement; Carlo Schimd; Dan Smith; Matthew Walker; Jon Willis; Alessandro Bosselli Matthew Colless; Aruna Goswami; Matt Jarvis; Eric Jullo; Jean-Paul Kneib; Iraklis Konstantopoloulous; Jeff Newman; Johan Richard; Firoza Sutaria; Edwar Taylor; Ludovic van Waerbeke; Giuseppina Battaglia; Pat Hall; Misha Haywood; Charli Sakari; Carlo Schmid; Arnaud Seibert; Sivarani Thirupathi; Yuting Wang; Yiping Wang; Ferdinand Babas; Steve Bauman; Elisabetta Caffau; Mary Beth Laychak; David Crampton; Daniel Devost; Nicolas Flagey; Zhanwen Han; Clare Higgs; Vanessa Hill; Kevin Ho; Sidik Isani; Shan Mignot; Rick Murowinski; Gajendra Pandey; Derrick Salmon; Arnaud Siebert; Doug Simons; Else Starkenburg; Kei Szeto; Brent Tully; Tom Vermeulen; Kanoa Withington; Nobuo Arimoto; Martin Asplund; Herve Aussel; Michele Bannister; Harish Bhatt; SS Bhargavi; John Blakeslee; Joss Bland-Hawthorn; James Bullock; Denis Burgarella; Tzu-Ching Chang; Andrew Cole; Jeff Cooke; Andrew Cooper; Paola Di Matteo; Ginevra Favole; Hector Flores; Bryan Gaensler; Peter Garnavich; Karoline Gilbert; Rosa Gonzalez-Delgado; Puragra Guhathakurta; Guenther Hasinger; Falk Herwig; Narae Hwang; Pascale Jablonka; Matthew Jarvis; Umanath Kamath; Lisa Kewley; Damien Le Borgne; Geraint Lewis; Robert Lupton; Sarah Martell; Mario Mateo; Olga Mena; David Nataf; Jeffrey Newman; Enrique Pérez; Francisco Prada; Mathieu Puech; Alejandra Recio-Blanco; Annie Robin; Will Saunders; Daniel Smith; C. S. Stalin; Charling Tao; Karun Thanjuvur; Laurence Tresse; Ludo van Waerbeke; Jian-Min Wang; David Yong; Gongbo Zhao; Patrick Boisse; James Bolton; Piercarlo Bonifacio; Francois Bouchy; Len Cowie; Katia Cunha; Magali Deleuil; Ernst de Mooij; Patrick Dufour; Sebastien Foucaud; Karl Glazebrook; John Hutchings; Chiaki Kobayashi; Rolf-Peter Kudritzki; Yang-Shyang Li; Lihwai Lin; Yen-Ting Lin; Martin Makler; Norio Narita; Changbom Park; Ryan Ransom; Swara Ravindranath; Bacham Eswar Reddy; Marcin Sawicki; Luc Simard; Raghunathan Srianand; Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann; Keiichi Umetsu; Ting-Gui Wang; Jong-Hak Woo; Xue-Bing Wu

The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer: The Composition and Dynamics of the Faint Universe

Alan McConnachie, Carine Babusiaux, Michael Balogh, Simon Driver, Pat Côté, Helene Courtois, Luke Davies, Laura Ferrarese, Sarah Gallagher, Rodrigo Ibata, Nicolas Martin, Aaron Robotham, Kim Venn, Eva Villaver, Jo Bovy, Alessandro Boselli, Matthew Colless, Johan Comparat, Kelly Denny, Pierre-Alain DucSara Ellison, Richard de Grijs, Mirian Fernandez-Lorenzo, Ken Freeman, Raja Guhathakurta, Patrick Hall, Andrew Hopkins, Mike Hudson, Andrew Johnson, Nick Kaiser, Jun Koda, Iraklis Konstantopoulos, George Koshy, Khee-Gan Lee, Adi Nusser, Anna Pancoast, Eric Peng, Celine Peroux, Patrick Petitjean, Christophe Pichon, Bianca Poggianti, Carlo Schmid, Prajval Shastri, Yue Shen, Chris Willot, Scott Croom, Rosine Lallement, Carlo Schimd, Dan Smith, Matthew Walker, Jon Willis, Alessandro Bosselli Matthew Colless, Aruna Goswami, Matt Jarvis, Eric Jullo, Jean-Paul Kneib, Iraklis Konstantopoloulous, Jeff Newman, Johan Richard, Firoza Sutaria, Edwar Taylor, Ludovic van Waerbeke, Giuseppina Battaglia, Pat Hall, Misha Haywood, Charli Sakari, Carlo Schmid, Arnaud Seibert, Sivarani Thirupathi, Yuting Wang, Yiping Wang, Ferdinand Babas, Steve Bauman, Elisabetta Caffau, Mary Beth Laychak, David Crampton, Daniel Devost, Nicolas Flagey, Zhanwen Han, Clare Higgs, Vanessa Hill, Kevin Ho, Sidik Isani, Shan Mignot, Rick Murowinski, Gajendra Pandey, Derrick Salmon, Arnaud Siebert, Doug Simons, Else Starkenburg, Kei Szeto, Brent Tully, Tom Vermeulen, Kanoa Withington, Nobuo Arimoto, Martin Asplund, Herve Aussel, Michele Bannister, Harish Bhatt, SS Bhargavi, John Blakeslee, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, James Bullock, Denis Burgarella, Tzu-Ching Chang, Andrew Cole, Jeff Cooke, Andrew Cooper, Paola Di Matteo, Ginevra Favole, Hector Flores, Bryan Gaensler, Peter Garnavich, Karoline Gilbert, Rosa Gonzalez-Delgado, Puragra Guhathakurta, Guenther Hasinger, Falk Herwig, Narae Hwang, Pascale Jablonka, Matthew Jarvis, Umanath Kamath, Lisa Kewley, Damien Le Borgne, Geraint Lewis, Robert Lupton, Sarah Martell, Mario Mateo, Olga Mena, David Nataf, Jeffrey Newman, Enrique Pérez, Francisco Prada, Mathieu Puech, Alejandra Recio-Blanco, Annie Robin, Will Saunders, Daniel Smith, C. S. Stalin, Charling Tao, Karun Thanjuvur, Laurence Tresse, Ludo van Waerbeke, Jian-Min Wang, David Yong, Gongbo Zhao, Patrick Boisse, James Bolton, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Francois Bouchy, Len Cowie, Katia Cunha, Magali Deleuil, Ernst de Mooij, Patrick Dufour, Sebastien Foucaud, Karl Glazebrook, John Hutchings, Chiaki Kobayashi, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Yang-Shyang Li, Lihwai Lin, Yen-Ting Lin, Martin Makler, Norio Narita, Changbom Park, Ryan Ransom, Swara Ravindranath, Bacham Eswar Reddy, Marcin Sawicki, Luc Simard, Raghunathan Srianand, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Keiichi Umetsu, Ting-Gui Wang, Jong-Hak Woo, Xue-Bing Wu

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MSE is an 11.25m aperture observatory with a 1.5 square degree field of view that will be fully dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy. More than 3200 fibres will feed spectrographs operating at low (R ~ 2000 - 3500) and moderate (R ~ 6000) spectral resolution, and approximately 1000 fibers will feed spectrographs operating at high (R ~ 40000) resolution. MSE is designed to enable transformational science in areas as diverse as tomographic mapping of the interstellar and intergalactic media; the in-situ chemical tagging of thick disk and halo stars; connecting galaxies to their large scale structure; measuring the mass functions of cold dark matter sub-halos in galaxy and cluster-scale hosts; reverberation mapping of supermassive black holes in quasars; next generation cosmological surveys using redshift space distortions and peculiar velocities. MSE is an essential follow-up facility to current and next generations of multi-wavelength imaging surveys, including LSST, Gaia, Euclid, WFIRST, PLATO, and the SKA, and is designed to complement and go beyond the science goals of other planned and current spectroscopic capabilities like VISTA/4MOST, WHT/WEAVE, AAT/HERMES and Subaru/PFS. It is an ideal feeder facility for E-ELT, TMT and GMT, and provides the missing link between wide field imaging and small field precision astronomy. MSE is optimized for high throughput, high signal-to-noise observations of the faintest sources in the Universe with high quality calibration and stability being ensured through the dedicated operational mode of the observatory. (abridged)

Original language	English
Number of pages	211
Journal	arXiv
Publication status	Published - 31 May 2016

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210 pages, 91 figures. Exposure draft. Appendices to the Detailed Science Case can be found at http://mse.cfht.hawaii.edu/docs/

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McConnachie, A., Babusiaux, C., Balogh, M., Driver, S., Côté, P., Courtois, H., Davies, L., Ferrarese, L., Gallagher, S., Ibata, R., Martin, N., Robotham, A., Venn, K., Villaver, E., Bovy, J., Boselli, A., Colless, M., Comparat, J., Denny, K., ... Wu, X.-B. (2016). The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer: The Composition and Dynamics of the Faint Universe. arXiv.

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N2 - MSE is an 11.25m aperture observatory with a 1.5 square degree field of view that will be fully dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy. More than 3200 fibres will feed spectrographs operating at low (R ~ 2000 - 3500) and moderate (R ~ 6000) spectral resolution, and approximately 1000 fibers will feed spectrographs operating at high (R ~ 40000) resolution. MSE is designed to enable transformational science in areas as diverse as tomographic mapping of the interstellar and intergalactic media; the in-situ chemical tagging of thick disk and halo stars; connecting galaxies to their large scale structure; measuring the mass functions of cold dark matter sub-halos in galaxy and cluster-scale hosts; reverberation mapping of supermassive black holes in quasars; next generation cosmological surveys using redshift space distortions and peculiar velocities. MSE is an essential follow-up facility to current and next generations of multi-wavelength imaging surveys, including LSST, Gaia, Euclid, WFIRST, PLATO, and the SKA, and is designed to complement and go beyond the science goals of other planned and current spectroscopic capabilities like VISTA/4MOST, WHT/WEAVE, AAT/HERMES and Subaru/PFS. It is an ideal feeder facility for E-ELT, TMT and GMT, and provides the missing link between wide field imaging and small field precision astronomy. MSE is optimized for high throughput, high signal-to-noise observations of the faintest sources in the Universe with high quality calibration and stability being ensured through the dedicated operational mode of the observatory. (abridged)

AB - MSE is an 11.25m aperture observatory with a 1.5 square degree field of view that will be fully dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy. More than 3200 fibres will feed spectrographs operating at low (R ~ 2000 - 3500) and moderate (R ~ 6000) spectral resolution, and approximately 1000 fibers will feed spectrographs operating at high (R ~ 40000) resolution. MSE is designed to enable transformational science in areas as diverse as tomographic mapping of the interstellar and intergalactic media; the in-situ chemical tagging of thick disk and halo stars; connecting galaxies to their large scale structure; measuring the mass functions of cold dark matter sub-halos in galaxy and cluster-scale hosts; reverberation mapping of supermassive black holes in quasars; next generation cosmological surveys using redshift space distortions and peculiar velocities. MSE is an essential follow-up facility to current and next generations of multi-wavelength imaging surveys, including LSST, Gaia, Euclid, WFIRST, PLATO, and the SKA, and is designed to complement and go beyond the science goals of other planned and current spectroscopic capabilities like VISTA/4MOST, WHT/WEAVE, AAT/HERMES and Subaru/PFS. It is an ideal feeder facility for E-ELT, TMT and GMT, and provides the missing link between wide field imaging and small field precision astronomy. MSE is optimized for high throughput, high signal-to-noise observations of the faintest sources in the Universe with high quality calibration and stability being ensured through the dedicated operational mode of the observatory. (abridged)

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