Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-06-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Proceedings paper for the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008
Scientific paper
10.1117/12.789987
(abridged) The Observatory for Multi-Epoch Gravitational Lens Astrophysics (OMEGA) is a mission concept for a 1.5-m near-UV through near-IR space observatory that will be dedicated to frequent imaging and spectroscopic monitoring of ~100 multiply-imaged active galactic nuclei over the whole sky. Using wavelength-tailored dichroics with extremely high transmittance, efficient imaging in six channels will be done simultaneously during each visit to each target. The separate spectroscopic mode, engaged through a flip-in mirror, uses an image slicer spectrograph. After a period of many visits to all targets, the resulting multidimensional movies can then be analyzed to a) measure the mass function of dark matter substructure; b) measure precise masses of the accreting black holes as well as the structure of their accretion disks and their environments over several decades of physical scale; and c) measure a combination of the local Hubble expansion and cosmological distances to unprecedented precision.
Bolton Adam J.
Booth Jeffrey T.
Bullock James S.
Cheng Edward
Coe Dan
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