TMT Instrumentation Canadian capabilities and interests David Loop, NRC-HIA June 26, 2010

Canadian Astronomy Community 21 universities across Canada (ACURA) –Most of the Canadian astronomers –Instrumentation research / labs at several locations National laboratory in Victoria/Penticton, BC (NRC-HIA) –Administration of the national observatories –Scientific staff –Instrumentation group (ATRG) –Data archiving centre (CADC) Industrial partners across Canada Decadal Long Range Plan for Astronomy (LRP2010) to be released this fall (CASCA) – LRP2000 just ending

ACURA Instrumentation Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy (ACURA) Examples of Canadian university instrumentation labs –CRAQ/LAE (Montreal, Laval, McGill) Gemini GPi, JWST FGS, CFHT Sitelle & Spirou studies –ISIS (Calgary, Lethbridge, Alberta) prepSKA, Herschel, Scuba-2 –UBC Instrumentation NFIRAOS sodium layer LIDAR, MOST, Arctic site testing –U Toronto Dunlap Institute NFIRAOS NSCU, Gemini F2T2 etalon –U Waterloo Instrumentation Scuba-2, CCAT, FIRI –University of Victoria Adaptive Optics Laboratory AO test bench, Raven MOAO demonstrator for Subaru

HIA Instrumentation Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (HIA) is the national lab –Government mandate, base funding, strong community support Astronomy Technology Research Group – Victoria (ATRG-V), 48 staff –TMT instrumentation management, system engineering, telescope structure and enclosure management –TMT NFIRAOS facility AO, IRMOS, WFOS, & IRIS OIWFS –ALMA Band 3 cryogenic receivers –Gemini GPI, GMOS-N upgrade, CFHT `Imaka GLAO Astronomy Technology Research Group – Penticton (ATRG-P), 20 staff –TMT NFIRAOS real time controller (RTC) –EVLA correlator, SKA PrepSKA, composite antennas, feeds, correlator/beam forming Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC), 20 staff –HST, Gemini, CFHT, JCMT data management –Canadian Virtual Observatory (CVO)

HIA Strengths Key strengths, –Multidisciplinary technical and science expertise –Co-located with strong science researchers –Efficient matrix structure –Systems engineering, project management –Continuity, institutional ‘memory’ –Collaboration expertise, international reputation –Strong university and industry engagement International Peer Review Committee (2009) comments, ‘HIA ranks among the best in the world in astronomy technology and development for existing and future telescopes’

TMT Instrumentation Interests Systems engineering & integration AO algorithms, tomography, PSF reconstruction Precision opto-mechanics, software, integration Real time control (RTC) hardware, firmware & software Advanced wavefront sensors & deformable mirrors High contrast imaging / Wide field imaging Spectrographs, IFUs, echelle, high res, multi-object Observation data management

Future Instrumentation Astronomy instruments have evolved –from $2 - 5 million complexity with year time frames –to $ million complexity and year time frames ! Future instruments will be characterized by collaborative efforts of large teams from multiple partners Instrument development funding model varies for different observatories and partners The community needs to build capacity of the key ingredients –Instrument scientists >> developing science ideas –Technology researchers >> developing technology ideas –Development capacity >> from ideas to on-sky science

Conclusion There is no lack of ambitions in the Canadian astronomy community for the next decade “How we plan to get there” is as important as the list of exciting science, observatories, and instrumentation. Canada, with its instrumentation capacity, is positioned to maintain its focus on international astronomy infrastructure and transformational science instruments for the next decades.