3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
Operational capabilities and on-sky performance of SAMOS at the completion of science commissioning
Massimo Robberto, Stephen A. Smee, Robert H. Barkhouser +9
We present the operational capabilities and on-sky performance of the SOAR Adaptive Module Optical Spectrograph (SAMOS) at the completion of its science commissioning phase. SAMOS…
astro-ph.IM2025
Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Conny Aerts +217
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the s…
astro-ph.IM2024
A Precision Cryogenic Positioning Stage for Detector Dithering and Flexure Compensation
Stephen A. Smee, Stephen C. Hope, Randolph P. Hammond +20
This paper presents the design and technical progress of a precision X-Y stage for detector dithering and flexure compensation. The stage is being developed for use in the Magellan…