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Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) are beginning to become moreprominent in astronomical instrumentation, due to their sensitivity, low noise,high pixel count for superconducting detectors, and inherent energy and timeresolving capability. The Kinetic Inductance Detector Spectrometer (KIDSpec)will take advantage of these features, KIDSpec is a medium resolution MKIDspectrograph for the optical/near infrared. KIDSpec will contribute to manyscience areas particularly those involving short and/or faint observations.When short period binary systems are found, typical CCD detectors will struggleto characterise these systems due to the very short exposures required, causingerrors as large as the estimated parameter itself. The KIDSpec Simulator (KSIM)has been developed to investigate how much KIDSpec could improve on this.KIDSpec was simulated on an ELT class telescope to find the extent of itspotential, and it was found that KIDSpec could observe a $m_{V}\approx{24}$with an SNR of 5 for a 10s exposure at 1420 spectral resolution. This wouldmean that KIDSpec on an ELT class telescope could spectroscopically follow upon any LSST photometric discoveries of LISA verification sources.

What could KIDSpec, a new MKID spectrograph, do on the ELT?