Title:
FALCON, a new AO concept for cosmological fields
Authors:
Puech et al.
Abstract:
FALCON is an original concept for a next generation
instrumentation at ESO VLT or at future ELTs. It is a multi-objects
integral field spectrograph, each IFU being coupled with atmospheric
tomography in order to reach spatial and spectral resolution ideally
suited for distant galaxy studies, typically 0.15 - 0.25 arcsec and
R>=5000 in the 0.8-1.8 m wavelength range. With the FALCON concept
the adaptive optics correction is only applied on small and discrete
areas selected on a large field.