Design and testing of the MOONS fibre positioning units

Watson, Steve; Atkinson, David; Beard, S. M.; Black, Martin; Bryson, Ian; Carrera, Jose; Caserio, Stefane; Chapman, Lee; Cochrane, William; Colling, Miriam; Fairley, Alasdair; Gonzalez, O. A.; Hug, Markus; Lawrence, Ciaran; Lay, Alexander K.; Montgomery, David; Moser, Yves; Nix, Johannes; O'Brien, Alan; Rees, Phil; Taylor, W. D.; Willemse, Bart

doi:10.1117/12.2563319

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Focal Plate: Fibre Position Units and Acquisition Cameras1

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“…Working closely together through the design and testing stages, the high-performance requirements of these units have now been met. Their key design features and a detailed description of the calibration and testing procedures are described in [2].…”

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Crescent MOONS: an update on the ongoing construction of the new VLT's multi-object spectrograph

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Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII

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The Multi Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph (MOONS) instrument is the next generation multi-object spectrograph for the VLT. This powerful instrument will combine for the first time: the large collecting power of the VLT with a high multipexing capability offered by 1000 optical fibres moved with individual robotic positioners and a novel, very fast spectrograph able to provide both low-and high-resolution spectroscopy simultaneously across the wavelength range 0.64μm -1.8μm. Such a facility will provide the astronomical community with a powerful, world-leading instrument able to serve a wide range of Galactic, Extragalactic and Cosmological studies. The final assembly, integration and verification phase of the instrument is now about to start performance testing.

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