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78 IV. Instrumental Developments and Projects Credit: MPIA 2011 and is awaiting its final adoption in mid 2012, with the implementation phase scheduled to start immediately thereafter. Overall, Germany is mostly involved with NISP – the optical assembly is provided by the MPE – and the German eucLid national data center with contributions by the Universities in Bonn, LMU Munich, MPE and MPIA. Part of the institute's involvement is being funded through the DLR. This includes four positions for instrument scientist, image simulations, calibrations, and hardware, as well as in-house contributions concentrated on the science side. MPIA hardware contributions: Near infrared filters and calibration source While we are not responsible for mechanisms, the NIR filters provide specific challenges with a diameter of 140mm, necessitated by the 0.730.7-wide field of view of eucLid. These diameters are larger by a factor of three compared to any of the WFC3/IR filters on HST and by a factor of two compared to JWST’s NIRcam. Aside from the mere material challenge of a pound of glass being homogeneously coated to very high accuracy, the three filter bandpasses (Y, J, H) have rather stringent requirements on throughput, out-of-band-blocking, and shape. Fig. IV.4.2: Current mechano-optical design of the Near Infrared Spectrophotometer (NISP) onboard eucLid. MPIA’s contribution lies in the supervision of the scientific performance of NISP, the internal Calibration Source, needed to calibrate the instrument's detectors, as well as the three infrared science filters for NISP. The NISP calibration source is being designed to provide the photometric accuracy levels required by the mission. An overall 1.5 % accuracy for all positions and epochs of the survey is the basis for the photometric redshifts to be computed for all of the faint galaxies to be used in the weak lensing diagnostic. This leaves little margin for the characterization of the detector array (16 Hawaii 2RG chips). The calibration source therefore has to provide flat-field and non-linearity characteristics of the arrays in flight and monitor their radiation-induced degradation with increasing mission duration. The demands of the filter and calibration source design combined with the overall development of the mission will make for very interesting years ahead of us. Legacy science: A place to participate Scientifically, eucLid offers endless opportunities beyond the core cosmology science. 15 000 square degrees of imaging data of a 5000–9000 Å band at 0.1 sampling, complemented with somewhat undersampled NIR photometry at 0.3 pixel scale, as well as slit-less spectroscopy will provide data input to topics ranging from AGN and galaxy evolution to Milky Way science, and from supernovae to planet searches. eucLid’s extensive Science Working Groups are starting to plan projects and opportunities in these legacy science areas, to exploit imaging data of billions of objects and spectroscopy of several tens of millions. Knud Jahnke, Rory Holmes, Gregor Seidel, Felix Hormuth, Stefanie Wachter
IV.5 Special Developments in the Technical Departments trac: A versatile Teamwork Platform used in Instrumentation Development The accessibility, organization and presentation of all project related information is a key to efficient collaboration within development teams. The value of a structured information platform increases with the number of team members and the duration of the projects. It provides a common pool of knowledge to the various disciplines within the development team. And it helps the Systems Engineering to manage the interdependencies and to monitor the progress in the different areas and phases of the development. A wide range of commercial groupware solutions promise help by supplying collaboration tools, such as centralized file exchange, document management, task management, discussion forums and wikis. Fig. IV.5.1: : The wiki start page for LINC-NIRVANA's Trac Credit: MPIA 79
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