Development of the single-mode fiber integral field unit for the RHEA Spectrograph

Adam D. Rains; Michael J. Ireland; Nemanja Jovanovic; Joao Bento; Tobias Feger; Julien Lozi; Christian Schwab; David W. Coutts; Olivier Guyon; Alexander Arriola; Simon Gross; Jonathan E. Harris

doi:10.1117/12.2314336

Development of the single-mode fiber integral field unit for the RHEA Spectrograph

Adam D. Rains^*, Michael J. Ireland, Nemanja Jovanovic, Joao Bento, Tobias Feger, Julien Lozi, Christian Schwab, David W. Coutts, Olivier Guyon, Alexander Arriola, Simon Gross, Jonathan E. Harris

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RHEA is a single-mode echelle spectrograph designed to be a replicable and cost effective method of undertaking precision radial velocity measurements. The instrument has a novel fiber feed with an integral field unit injecting into a grid of single-mode fibers reformatted to form a pseudo-slit, increasing throughput and enabling highspatial resolution observations when operating behind Subaru and the SCExAO adaptive optics system. The past 18 months have seen a replacement cable constructed for the instrument to address modal noise caused by closely packed fibers with similar path lengths. Here we detail the cable fabrication procedure, design improvements, increased precision in meeting the required sub-micron optical tolerances, throughput gains, and known remaining issues.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
Editors	Luc Simard, Luc Simard, Christopher J. Evans, Hideki Takami
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Print)	9781510619579
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314336
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII 2018 - Austin, United States Duration: 10 Jun 2018 → 14 Jun 2018

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	10702
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	10/06/18 → 14/06/18

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Rains, A. D., Ireland, M. J., Jovanovic, N., Bento, J., Feger, T., Lozi, J., Schwab, C., Coutts, D. W., Guyon, O., Arriola, A., Gross, S., & Harris, J. E. (2018). Development of the single-mode fiber integral field unit for the RHEA Spectrograph. In L. Simard, L. Simard, C. J. Evans, & H. Takami (Eds.), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII Article 107025J (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10702). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314336

Rains, Adam D. ; Ireland, Michael J. ; Jovanovic, Nemanja et al. / Development of the single-mode fiber integral field unit for the RHEA Spectrograph. Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII. editor / Luc Simard ; Luc Simard ; Christopher J. Evans ; Hideki Takami. SPIE, 2018. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering).

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Rains, AD, Ireland, MJ, Jovanovic, N, Bento, J, Feger, T, Lozi, J, Schwab, C, Coutts, DW, Guyon, O, Arriola, A, Gross, S & Harris, JE 2018, Development of the single-mode fiber integral field unit for the RHEA Spectrograph. in L Simard, L Simard, CJ Evans & H Takami (eds), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII., 107025J, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 10702, SPIE, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII 2018, Austin, United States, 10/06/18. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314336

Development of the single-mode fiber integral field unit for the RHEA Spectrograph. / Rains, Adam D.; Ireland, Michael J.; Jovanovic, Nemanja et al.
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII. ed. / Luc Simard; Luc Simard; Christopher J. Evans; Hideki Takami. SPIE, 2018. 107025J (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10702).

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Rains AD, Ireland MJ, Jovanovic N, Bento J, Feger T, Lozi J et al. Development of the single-mode fiber integral field unit for the RHEA Spectrograph. In Simard L, Simard L, Evans CJ, Takami H, editors, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII. SPIE. 2018. 107025J. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.2314336

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