The MUSE second-generation VLT instrument by Bacon R. et al. on Wednesday 30 November

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is a second-generation VLT

panoramic integral-field spectrograph currently in manufacturing, assembly and

integration phase. MUSE has a field of 1x1 arcmin2 sampled at 0.2x0.2 arcsec2

and is assisted by the VLT ground layer adaptive optics ESO facility using four

laser guide stars. The instrument is a large assembly of 24 identical high

performance integral field units, each one composed of an advanced image

slicer, a spectrograph and a 4kx4k detector. In this paper we review the

progress of the manufacturing and report the performance achieved with the

first integral field unit.

arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16795v1