KMOS. Why? What? Who? How?

The KMOS Consortium

KMOS was developed and built by a balanced consortium of UK and German institutes in partnership with the European Southern Observatory. Principal Investigators are Ray Sharples (University of Durham) and Ralf Bender (Universitätssternwarte/Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik).

Shared work: British and German institutes participating in the KMOS project together with ESO.

Institutes

In detail the participating institutes and their main responsibilities are:

• University of Durham
  • Project Science
  • Pick-off Module (shared with ATC)
  • Integral Field Units
• University of Oxford
  • Spectrographs
• UK Astronomy Technology Centre Edinburgh (ATC)
  • Project Management
  • Systems Engineering
  • Quality Assurance
  • Pick-off Module (shared with University of Durham)
  • Cryostat
• Universitätssternwarte München
  • Instrument Software
  • Instrument Electronics
• Max Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik
  • Data Analysis Software
• European Southern Observatory (ESO)
  • Detector

Milestones