Developments in fibre-positioning technology for the WEAVE instrument at the William Herschel Telescope

Ellen Schallig; Ian Lewis; James Gilbert; Gavin Dalton; Matthew Brock; Don Carlos  Abrams; Kevin Middleton; J Alfonso L Aguerri; Piercarlo Bonifacio; Esperanza Carrasco; Scott C Trager

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Developments in fibre-positioning technology for the WEAVE instrument at the William Herschel Telescope

Ellen Schallig, Ian Lewis, James Gilbert, Gavin Dalton, Matthew Brock, Don Carlos Abrams, Kevin Middleton, J Alfonso L Aguerri, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Esperanza Carrasco, Scott C Trager

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WEAVE is the next-generation wide-field optical spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) on La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain. It is a multi-object "pick-and-place" fibre-fed spectrograph with a 1000 fibre multiplex behind a new dedicated 2 prime focus corrector. The WEAVE positioner concept uses two robots working in tandem in order to reconfigure a fully populated field within the expected 1 hour dwell-time for the instrument (a good match between the required exposure times and the limit of validity for a given configuration due to the effects of differential refraction). In this paper we describe some of the final design decisions arising from the prototyping phase of the instrument design and provide an update on the current manufacturing status of the fibre positioner system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Editors	C J Evans, L Simard & H Takami
Place of Publication	Bellingham, USA
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Print)	9781510601956
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231626
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Jan 2016 → …

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Conference	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI
Period	1/01/16 → …
Other	June 26-30 2016

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Schallig, E., Lewis, I., Gilbert, J., Dalton, G., Brock, M., Abrams, D. C., Middleton, K., Aguerri, J. A. L., Bonifacio, P., Carrasco, E., & Trager, S. C. (2016). Developments in fibre-positioning technology for the WEAVE instrument at the William Herschel Telescope. In C. J. E. L. S. . H. T. (Ed.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231626

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Developments in fibre-positioning technology for the WEAVE instrument at the William Herschel Telescope. / Schallig, Ellen; Lewis, Ian; Gilbert, James et al.
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. ed. / C J Evans, L Simard & H Takami. Bellingham, USA: SPIE, 2016.

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