Giant Magellan Telescope Integral-Field Spectrograph (GMTIFS)

An international consortium of research and technology organisations is working together to design and build the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), which will be the world's largest and most powerful telescope when it is completed in 2020. ANU is leading Australia's involvement in the GMT and will deliver a back-end spectrograph and adaptive-optics solutions for the project.

Building on its experience and expertise in optical and infrared imaging and spectroscopic instrumentation, the RSAA is designing and building one of the first instruments for the telescope, the GMT Integral-Field Spectrograph (GMTIFS). This instrument will be one of three that are developed with the telescope and available on the telescope when it is completed and sees 'first light'. GMTIFS is a near-infrared imager and integral-field spectrograph, meaning that it will not only have the ability to take detailed images of the sky, but also obtain spectra from across a continuous region of the field of view.