FOBOS Keck

Keck-FOBOS is next-generation spectroscopic facility concept for Keck Observatory.

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We're recruiting science ideas to build on the FOBOS #Astro2020 white paper (https://t.co/qhfcYjefn7). 1800 fibers, 0.31-1 um, R~3500, IFU modes, and DEEP! A next generation facility for @keckobservatory.

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

We now have a complete prototype of the FOBOS blue channel camera, thanks to the PI’s 7-year-old. In-lab testing begins...

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

IR-FOBOS, anyone? Excited to be part of the @keckobservatory IR spectroscopy workshop today and think big with @emily_spacecats and @ikashell...

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

We are joining #Strike4BlackLives and #shutdownSTEM today and taking time to educate ourselves about anti-Black racism, injustice, and violence against Black lives. We seek to find, support, and build meaningful tools for change.

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

So excited to have been invited to submit a full MSIP proposal! Due date is May 6th. The only problem is how to type with all your fingers crossed...?

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

Excited about cosmology and galaxy probes with small-scale clustering. The bane is "fiber collisions." DESI collision radius is ~63'' but for FOBOS Starbugs, it's only 12''. #FiberCollisions

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

The MSIP pre-proposal is in, just in time for the holidays! Will NSF put a little something in our stockings?

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

Ah, NSF Fastlane.. you make us nostalgic for the late-90's internet. When a mistimed click on the back button could doom everything. It's fun to write words like "innovative" and "state-of-the-art" into a 20-year-old text field that can't flow text without chopping the lines.

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

Grateful to our Red Team reviewers who provided excellent and valuable feedback on our MSIP draft. We're in the homestretch now!

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

Asst. Professor search is starting at UCSC Astronomy & Astrophysics: https://t.co/XwlqcrbPn0

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

Excited about key programs: faint spectroscopy for massive galaxy / dark energy work; ultra-deep IFU maps of z=2 CGM *in emission*; IGM tomography (no doubt!); and 100,000 stars in the M31 disk and satellites, IFUs on young star clusters. Wow...

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

Draft proposal sent out to the Red Team internal review... Woohoo!

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

We have a proposal draft! Still doing some fine-tuning and then off to the Red Team for review...

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

https://t.co/rxFTCNZPKh The power may be out in California but the brand new FOBOS website has just powered on!

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

We will be talking to @LSST folks about FOBOS synergies in a few minutes!

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

FOBOS just got a new logo...

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Very excited to have @astronomeara visiting us in Santa Cruz today. Should we show him the new logo?

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

In addition to single fibers and multiple IFUs, we're exploring a 3rd FOBOS targeting mode: A 30''-wide monolithic IFU. Would look something this 1641-fiber bundle (from @sdssurveys's LVM design).

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

Woohoo! We now have a FOBOS exposure time calculator. Thanks Kyle Westfall. Let the yearning for your FOBOS science begin!

[FOBOS Keck @FobosKeck]

Nice conversation today with @caltechipac about expanding the @keckobservatory archive (KOA) for FOBOS. We want to automate cross referencing of panoramic photometry for optimized target allocation, program definition, and serving of data products. Also in the time-domain.

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Nick MacDonald is at Berkeley's Space Science Lab today working with DESI's Claire Poppett, Tim Miller, and Mike Lampton on FOBOS design. I think he brought some fiber with him!