Programmable slits for multi-object spectroscopy: modeling and characterization

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be equipped with a Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS), in order to record simultaneously several hundred spectra. The selection of the objects in the field of view will be done by a programmable slit device based on a new technology, the Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MOEMS). In Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, we have developed since several years different tools for the modeling and the characterization of these MOEMS-based slit masks. Our models, based on Fourier theory, address key parameters for the spectrograph performance like the spectral photometric variation. We have also developed a characterization bench for the measurement of the contrast value, amount of the non-selected flux from sky background and bright sources. Effects of object position on the programmable slit device and contrast reduction when the exit pupil size is increasing have been revealed.

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