The MUSE second-generation VLT instrument

By R. Bacon, M. Accardo, L. Adjali, H. Anwand, S. Bauer, I. Biswas, Jérémy Blaizot, D. Boudon, S. Brau-Nogué, J. Brinchmann and 58 more. Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010

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Summary: The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is a second-generation VLT panoramic integral-field spectrograph currently in manufacturing, assembly and integration phase. MUSE has a field of 1x1 arcmin2 sampled at 0.2x0.2 arcsec2 and is assisted by the VLT ground layer adaptive optics ESO facility using four laser guide stars. The instrument is a large assembly of 24 identical high performance integral field units, each one composed of an advanced image slicer, a spectrograph and a 4kx4k detector. In this paper we review the progress of the manufacturing and report the performance achieved with the first integral field unit.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Instrumentation

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GASP. I. Gas Stripping Phenomena in Galaxies with MUSE (2017, methodology): “The data are reduced with the most recent version of the MUSE pipeline at any time (Bacon et al. 2010; https://www. eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/muse/).”
The SDSS-IV MaNGA Sample: Design, Optimization, and Usage Considerations (2017, neutral): “…data sets such as ATLAS3D (Cappellari et al. 2011), DiskMass (Bershady et al. 2010), and CALIFA (Sánchez et al. 2012), as well as forthcoming data from instruments such as MUSE (Bacon et al. 2010) and KCWI (Martin et al. 2010) capable of producing even higher fidelity data for more modest samples.”
De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies (2018, methodology): “In particular, the use of the VLT IFU spectrograph MUSE (Bacon et al., 2010) on nearby galaxies has allowed astronomers to obtain spatially resolved spectroscopy with very high spatial resolution on entire galaxies (e.g., Cresci et al., 2017; Venturi et al., 2017, 2018) distinguishing different ioni”
OVERVIEW OF THE SDSS-IV MaNGA SURVEY: MAPPING NEARBY GALAXIES AT APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY (2014, methodology): “…KMOS (Kband Multi-Object Spectrograph, Sharples et al. 2006) and the recently commissioned MUSE instrument (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, Bacon et al. 2010) as well as IFU concepts for 30 m class telescopes, the James Webb Space Telescope (MIRI: Mid-Infrared Instrument Wright et al.…”
UBIQUITOUS GIANT Lyα NEBULAE AROUND THE BRIGHTEST QUASARS AT z ∼ 3.5 REVEALED WITH MUSE (2016, methodology): “Data was collected with the MUSE/VLT instrument (Bacon et al. 2010) between 19 September 2014 and 9 November 2015.”
The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey - VIII. Extended Lyman-α haloes around high-z star-forming galaxies (2017, background): “Recently, a significant step forward has been taken thanks to the substantial increase in sensitivity provided by the MultiUnit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the ESO-VLT (Bacon et al. 2010).”
An Extreme Protocluster of Luminous Dusty Starbursts in the Early Universe (2017, methodology): “DRC was observed on the nights of 2015 August 13, and September 5 and 7 with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) integral field spectrograph mounted on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope UT4 (Bacon et al. 2010; DDT program 295.”
OBSERVING STRATEGY FOR THE SDSS-IV/MaNGA IFU GALAXY SURVEY (2015, methodology): “Simultaneous and integral coverage of the spatial field is desirable and achieved by a number of instruments using lenslets (e.g., SAURON, OSIRIS; Bacon et al. 2001; Larkin et al. 2003) or image slicers (e.g., SINFONI, MUSE; Eisenhauer et al. 2003; Bacon et al. 2010).”
ZAP -- Enhanced PCA Sky Subtraction for Integral Field Spectroscopy (2016, methodology): “The MUSE integral field spectrograph (IFS) (Bacon et al. 2010) uses an image slicing optical component called a “field splitter” to separate the field of view into 24 regions that are passed into 24 identical but independent integral field units (IFUs).”
Systematic Identification of LAEs for Visible Exploration and Reionization Research Using Subaru HSC (SILVERRUSH). I. Program strategy and clustering properties of ∼2000 Lyα emitters at z = 6–7 over the 0.3–0.5 Gpc2 survey area (2017, methodology): “There are three new large instruments that are used for LAE observations; the Very Large Telescope/MultiUnit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE: Bacon et al. 2010), the Hobby–Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment/ Visible Integral-Field Replicable Unit Spectrograph (HETDEX/VIRUS: Hill et al. 2012), and…”