Instrumentation
Preliminary conceptual design of MOSAIC, a MOS instrument for the future ELT
Simulated follow-up of a z~10 candidate LAE with the MOSAIC IFU (bottom left panel; Disseau et al. 2014)
MOSAIC, the future ELT Multi-Object Spectrograph
Current implications
- Co-PI and Project Scientist for MOSAIC, which a project for a Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS) for the future ESO 39m E-ELT. As such, I am part of the local MOSAIC Project Office. I am also the MOSAIC Simulation Work Package Manager. As such, I am leading the long-term project WEBSIM, which is a series of E-ELT end-to-end simulators coupled to web-based human interfaces. The latest version, called WEBSIM-COMPASS, was developed in the frame of the French ANR COMPASS Project.
- Member of the VLT/MOONS and MSE science teams. I am also a member of the EUCLID consortium.
MOSAIC: a MOS for the ELT
The most prominent objective of MOSAIC will be to conduct the first exhaustive inventory of matter in the distant Universe. This will lift the veil on how matter is distributed in and between distant galaxies, by accounting for all kinds of regular matter, comprising stars and different phases of gas, as well as so-called dark matter.
Past Implications
- During my post-doc at ESO-Garching as part of the E-ELT Science Office (EScO), I was involved in the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) Design Reference Mission (DRM). I've worked on the “Physics and Mass Assembly of galaxies out to z~6” and the “High resolution imaging of high redshift galaxies” cases. See results and presentations on these DRM cases here.
- I was Science Team Director of EAGLE, an ESO phase A study for a near-infrared multi-integral field spectrograph dedicated to the E-ELT, which was assisted by Multi-Object Adaptive Optics (MOAO), something I've been involved in since my thesis.
- I was Deputy of the System Engineer and AO WP Manager of OPTIMOS-EVE, an ESO phase A study for an optical multi-integral field spectrograph dedicated to the E-ELT.
- During my thesis, I was a member of the FALCON project at the Paris Observatory, which proposed for the first time an instrument concept based on MOAO, an Adaptive Optics technique invented by E. Gendron, F. Hammer, and F. Sayède.