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.IM2026
Motorized Mount for the 3-DoF Folding Mirror 2 of the VLT's BlueMUSE Instrument
Gloria Mellinand, Diane Chapuis, Malak Galal +10
BlueMUSE is a blue-optimized, medium spectral resolution, panoramic integral field spectrograph under development for the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The project is now fully enter…