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A box for things that go "boom"
A box for things that go "boom"
Boombox is one of two spectrographs as part of the upcoming Via survey. While ViaSpec uses high-resolution spectroscopy to study the nature of dark matter, stellar streams, and cold gas, the companion Boombox spectrograph uses low-resolution, high-throughput spectroscopy to enable a wide range of science. Boombox will be used to study transients, their host galaxies, and other faint targets like metal-poor stars and dwarf galaxies.
Big glass: MMT and Magellan
Big glass: MMT and Magellan
Via is planning to be on-sky 150 nights per year over three years on both MMT in the North and the Magellan telescopes in the South.
Target of opportunity and spare fiber programs
Target of opportunity and spare fiber programs
Via observes with 600 robotically positioned fibers patrolling the 1 deg^2 focal plane. 36 of those fibers always route into Boombox, allowing observations occur in two modes 1) during Via operations taking spectroscopy of objects in Via fields and 2) as Target of Opportunity interrupts to survey operations. Movie credit: Vedant Chandra.
Instrument design
Instrument design
Boombox's two-channel design covers wavelengths from 355 to 1010 nm, delivering R~1000 spectra with peak throughput over 40% and a limiting magnitude of G ≈ 23.9 at the Magellan Clay telescope.
Get in touch at danielle.frostig@cfa.harvard.edu
Get in touch at danielle.frostig@cfa.harvard.edu
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