May 2025

28/05/25 (Wednesday)
10:00, Library (ESO HQ, Garching) | ESO Garching
Informal Discussion
Talk — A new instrument for conducting ultra broad band (U to K) spectroscopy survey of young stellar objects
Joe Ninan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

Abstract

Multi epoch spectroscopy still remains our only probe to understand the innermost (< 1AU) regions of protoplanetary discs. We have a long-running program for monitoring FUors and EXors to understand the accretion and outflow phenomenon in YSOs. With this motivation, I shall talk about our new project to build a novel spectrograph, which will be the fastest spectrograph for ultra broad band spectroscopy survey in the world. This instrument, dubbed TA-MOONS will be a next generation instrument on the 3.6 m DOT, India, that will have the unique capability to observe up to 8 targets anywhere in the 12 arc min diameter field of view in the ultra broad band wavelength range of 370 nm to 2.5 micron simultaneously.
I look forward to a discussion on both the science and instrumentation aspect.