RSAA Colloquia / Seminars / Feast-of-Facts: Friday, 01 November 2019, 14:00-14:30; Duffield Lecture Theatre


Francois Rigaut & David Broderick

"AITC Series - MAVIS status update: going strong"

MAVIS just passed its conceptual design mid term review. During the past eight month since the start of the conceptual design phase, the international MAVIS team came up with a baseline design that fulfils the ambitious instrument requirements: provide both an imager and a spectrograph with diffraction limited images down to 450nm and over a field of view of 30x30 arcsec. Numerical simulations and optical design fed trade-off studies that eventually resulted in the baseline design. We will present a snapshot of the MAVIS current status, including programmatic, performance, science, funding and the future of MAVIS.