2 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
On-sky Fibre-Target-Alignment of the 4MOST instrument: calibration and performance
Roland Winkler, Weijia Sun, Daniel Sablowski +9
The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) is a new wide-field, fibre-fed spectroscopic survey facility for the VISTA telescope at ESOs Paranal Observatory. The instr…
astro-ph.IM2026
High multiplex and precision: the design and development of FLEX, a grid-based fiber positioner with large patrol radius and minimized telecentric error
Aaron Omadutt, Roelof S. de Jong, Will Saunders +5
In next-generation spectroscopic facilities, high-multiplex fiber positioning systems must operate within highly constrained focal surfaces, such as the Wide-Field Spectroscopic Te…