The Origins Survey Spectrometer (OSS) for the Origins Space Telescope

Abstract

OSS on Origins is designed to decode the cosmic history of nucleosynthesis, star formation, and supermassive black hole growth with wide-area spatial-spectral 3-D surveys in the 30 to 670 micron band. Six wideband grating modules combine to cover the full band at R=300, each couples a long slit with at least 30 beams on the sky. Two high-resolution modes are provided: one incorporates an interferometer in front of the gratings providing R of more than 40,000 at 112 microns, the other adds an etalon for R>300,000 at 112 microns. The full system design is presented, including optics, detector arrays, readouts, and the thermal design.