Contributions by Gemini staff
On the Horizon
The GHOST team completes its Critical Design Review and moves
toward its Build Phase. The National Science Foundation and AURA
have selected Toptica Photonics AG to produce the new GeMS laser.
Scheduling for Gemini’s next facility instrument, Gen 4#3, is being
driven so that commissioning occurs in concert with the Large
Synoptic Survey Telescope’s science operations; look for a Request for
Proposals later this year.
GHOST Update
We continue to make good progress on the Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph
(GHOST) project. In early March 2016, we held the second half of a two-part project milestone: the Critical Design Review at Canada’s National Resource Council-Herzberg in Victoria, British Columbia. The review committee was generally quite pleased with the progress made,