13 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…
Focal Plate Prototyping for Modular Focal Planes of Stage-5 Instruments For Ground-Based Telescopes
Maxime Rombach, Jean-David Perriard, Laurent Chevalley +3
As current Stage-4 multi-object instruments such as SDSS-V, DESI, MOONS or 4MOST are providing astrophysicists data to study the objects of the Universe, effort is arising to build…
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-…
Thermal Characterization of a 6-Positioner, 6.2-mm-Pitch Module for Stage-5 Telescopes
Maxime Rombach, Malak Galal, Jonathan Wei +3
Ensuring thermal stability of robotic fiber positioners is essential for reliable operation in the real environments of Stage-5 telescopes, where temperature variations can influen…