Contributing with optics and optomechanics skills for the planning of MANIFEST subsystems in CoD and beyond.

• Grant number: 22/02446-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: May 01, 2022
• End date: December 19, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Astronomical Instrumentation
• Principal Investigator: Augusto Damineli Neto
• Grantee: Tiago Gualberto Bezerra de Souza
• Host Institution: Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/51680-6 - Exploring the universe: from the galaxies formation to Earth-like planets with the Giant Magellan Telescope, AP.ESP
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/06042-1 - Implementation of a PIAACMC in MagAO-X coronagraph and ExAO performance assessment of GMagAO-X, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

The main goal of this post-doc project is to contribute to the planning and execution of the GMT multi-fiber feed, MANIFEST (Many-Instrument Fiber System), mainly on the optical and optomechanics design of parts of the instrument, therefore paving the way for deeper collaboration between Brazil and the leading institutions of MANIFEST in Australia. Within the MANIFEST project, it is expected that the post-doc candidate work on the G-CLEF Spectrograph Filter Box, fed by MANIFEST. The post-doc scholarship will foment the formation of an instrument specialist, specialized in MANIFEST and familiar with the two instruments that MANIFEST will interface with at first: G-CLEF and GMACS. This project also includes the planning of a 12-month visit to Australia.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PEREIRA, RODRIGO L.; GIORGETTI, TIAGO; SOUZA, TIAGO G. B.; AMARELLA, THIAGO S.; NEVES-HARTMANN, VITOR; RIBEIRO, RAFAEL A. S.; DE OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIA MENDES; LOMBARDI, CELESTINA S.; MCGREGOR, HELEN; ZHENG, JESSICA; et al. MANIFEST Filter Box: A conceptual opto-mechanical design. OPTICAL MODELING AND PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS XIV, v. 13129, p. 19-pg., 2024-01-01. (23/08558-2, 22/07572-9, 11/51680-6, 22/02446-5)

DE SOUZA, TIAGO G. B.; BOUCHEZ, ANTONIN H.; RIBEIROA, RAFAEL A. S.; VIEIRAA, TARCIO A.; NEMATI, BIJAN D.; DEMERS, RICHARD. GMT adaptive optics test camera: Conceptual optical design. OPTICAL MODELING AND PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS XIV, v. 13129, p. 14-pg., 2024-01-01. (22/02446-5)