Target allocation yields for massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys with fibers

Will Saunders; Scott Smedley; Peter Gillingham; Jaime E. Forero-Romero; Stephanie Jouvel; Brian Nord

doi:10.1117/12.2057299

5 August 2014 Target allocation yields for massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys with fibers

Will Saunders, Scott Smedley, Peter Gillingham, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Stephanie Jouvel, Brian Nord

Proceedings Volume 9150, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VI; 915023 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057299
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

We present Simulated Annealing fiber-to-target allocation simulations for the proposed DESI and 4MOST massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys. We simulate various survey strategies, for both Poisson and realistically clustered mock target samples. We simulate both Echidna and theta-phi actuator designs, including the restrictions caused by the physical actuator characteristics during repositioning. For DESI, with theta-phi actuators, used in 5 passes over the sky for a mock ELG/LRG/QSO sample, with matched fiber and target densities, a total target allocation yield of 89.3% was achieved, but only 83.7% for the high-priority Ly-alpha QSOs. If Echidna actuators are used with the same pitch and number of passes, the yield increases to 94.4% and 97.2% respectively, representing fractional gains of 5.7% and 16% respectively. Echidna also allows a factor-of-two increase in the number of close Ly-alpha QSO pairs that can be observed. Echidna spine tilt causes a variable loss of throughput, with average loss being the same as the loss at the rms tilt. The simulated annealing allows spine tilt minimization to be included in the optimization, at some small cost to the yield. With a natural minimization scheme, we find an rms tilt always close to 0.58 x maximum. There is an additional but much smaller defocus loss, equivalent to an average defocus of 30 μm. These tilt losses offset the gains in yield for Echidna, but because the survey strategy is driven by the higher priority targets, a clear survey speed advantage remains. For 4MOST, high and low latitude sample mock catalogs were supplied by the 4MOST team, and allocations were carried out with the proposed Echidna-based positioner geometry. At high latitudes, the resulting target completeness was 85.3% for LR targets and 78.9% for HR targets. At low latitude, the target completeness was 93.9% for LR targets and 71.2% for HR targets.

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Will Saunders, Scott Smedley, Peter Gillingham, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Stephanie Jouvel, and Brian Nord "Target allocation yields for massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys with fibers", Proc. SPIE 9150, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VI, 915023 (5 August 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057299

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