10 papers
WST -- Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: The Next Leap in Wide-field Spectroscopy
Roland Bacon, Olga Bellido, Philippe Dierickx +53
The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a concept for a dedicated 12-m spectroscopic survey facility designed to address some of the most important questions in astrophysic…
WST, the wide-field spectroscopic telescope: progress on the design of the instruments
David Lee, Joel Vernet, Elizabeth George +47
WST, the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope is a proposed new facility that will provide a transformational gain in spectroscopic survey capability over existing facilities. The WS…
MOSAIC at ELT: Design and First Prototyping of Novel Robotic Optical-Relay Positioners
Maxime Rombach, Markus Thurneysen, Lucas Ortolani +9
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is, to date, the most ambitious ground-based telescope under construction. MOSAIC is a multi-objects spectrograph (MOS) that aims to make full u…
Performance Testing of a Trillium-based 21-Positioner Module for Stage-5 Telescopes
Oliver Pineda Suárez, Jonathan Wei, Malak Galal +4
Evaluating the performance metrics of theta-phi robotic positioners is crucial to gather insights into the system's behavior and ensure their reliability during operation in Stage-…
WST Multi-Object Spectrograph Fiber Positioners:Development of a 32,000-Unit Precision Robotic System
Sébastien Pernecker, Maxime Rombach, Malak Galal +13
The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope Multi-Object Spectrograph requires an unprecedented fiber positioning system comprising 30'000 low-resolution and 2'000 high-resolution posit…
Advancing Control Electronics for Next-Generation Astronomical Fiber Robotic Positioners
Sebastien Pernecker, Jonathan Wei, Maxime Rombach +3
Next-generation spectroscopic surveys require compact, high-density fiber robotic positioner systems achieving 5um precision, placing strict constraints on the size and the power b…