3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
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…
astro-ph.IM2026
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…
astro-ph.IM2024
Investigations on assembly and coverage for modular focal planes of multiplexed telescopes
Maxime Rombach, Xiangyu Xu, Ricardo Araujo +7
Multiplexed surveys have the ambition to grow larger for the next generation of focal plane instruments. Future projects such as Spec-S5, MUST, and WST have an ever-growing need fo…