3 papers
astro-ph.IM2024
Additive manufacturing applications in astronomy: a review
Younes Chahid, Carolyn Atkins, Greg Lister +9
Despite the established role of additive manufacturing (AM) in aerospace and medical fields, its adoption in astronomy remains low. Encouraging AM integration in a risk-averse comm…
astro-ph.IM2024
Flexure based fibre positioners: design optimisation to follow arbitrary focal plane curvature
Tom Louth, Stephen Watson, David Montgomery
The use of flexures to achieve fibre positioner motion is being actively investigated by several institutes, for example at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UKATC) and Leibniz-I…
astro-ph.IM2024
WST -- Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope: addressing the instrumentation challenges of a new 12m class telescope dedicated to widefield Multi-object and Integral Field Spectroscopy
David Lee, Joel D. R. Vernet, Roland Bacon +23
WST - Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope: We summarise the design challenges of instrumentation for a proposed 12m class Telescope that aims to provide a large (>2.5 square degree)…