Schiavon, and Steve Margheim previewed
Gemini’s near-term partnership with CFHT
for remote access to GRACES and Gemini’s
planned GHOS spectrograph.
The User Meeting followed the day’s science talks and featured updates on Gemini
science operations, software, and current
instruments — including the Gemini MultiObject Spectrograph’s (GMOS) new detectors, Gemini South’s Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) and FLAMINGOS-2 (see article,
pages 29-33). Further discussion of KisslerPatig’s idea on “peer review time allocation”
had the meeting participants asking the new
User’s Committee for Gemini to further consider the notion.
Figure 1.
Participants at the
Gemini Science Meeting
in San Francisco.
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Optical Spectrograph (GHOS). The Committee challenged participants to articulate what
they wanted Gemini to be and what capabilities are needed to make that happen.
Day Three: The Deep Universe
The second day ended with the first Long
Range Planning session led by the Science
and Technology Advisory Committee (STAC).
Key discussions concentrated on Future
Gemini instrumentation under the “4+AO”
model, and in particular where to place
(north or south) Gemini’s High-resolution
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The focus of the meeting expanded to extragalactic distances on day three with invited talks
on supermassive black holes by Chung-Pei Ma
(University of California Berkeley), gamma-ray
bursts by Elena Pian (INAF, Trieste Astronomical Observatory, Italy), and gas flows in nearby
active galactic nuclei by Thasia Storchi-Bergmann (Instituto de Física - UFRGS).
Filling in the rest of the day’s contributed
talks topics ranged from the resolving of
stars in Local Group star clusters to high-redshift supernovae. A common thread heard in
many of the presentations on day three was
the importance of high-resolution (spatial
and/or spectral) capabilities. This day also
featured a discussion on the future of adaptive optics (AO) at Gemini North along with
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