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WST, the wide-field spectroscopic telescope: progress on the design of the instruments
David Lee, Joel Vernet, Elizabeth George +46
WST, the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope is a proposed new facility that will provide a transformational gain in spectroscopic survey capability over existing facilities. The WS…
WST -- Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: The Next Leap in Wide-field Spectroscopy
Roland Bacon, Olga Bellido, Philippe Dierickx +52
The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a concept for a dedicated 12-m spectroscopic survey facility designed to address some of the most important questions in astrophysic…
MOSAIC at ELT: Design and First Prototyping of Novel Robotic Optical-Relay Positioners
Maxime Rombach, Markus Thurneysen, Lucas Ortolani +27
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…
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…
Performance Testing of a Trillium-based 21-Positioner Module for Stage-5 Telescopes
Oliver Pineda Suárez, Jonathan Wei, Malak Galal +4
Evaluating the performance metrics of theta-phi robotic positioners is crucial to gather insights into the system's behavior and ensure their reliability during operation in Stage-…
Thermal Characterization of a 6-Positioner, 6.2-mm-Pitch Module for Stage-5 Telescopes
Maxime Rombach, Malak Galal, Jonathan Wei +3
Ensuring thermal stability of robotic fiber positioners is essential for reliable operation in the real environments of Stage-5 telescopes, where temperature variations can influen…
Ultra-precise Multi-fiber Optical Connectors for Astronomy
Malak Galal, Maxime Rombach, Jean-Paul Kneib
The increasing sensitivity of modern astronomical instruments requires optical fiber connections with high crossmating stability and insertion loss as low as 1% (0.05 dB). Conventi…
WST Multi-Object Spectrograph Fiber Positioners:Development of a 32,000-Unit Precision Robotic System
Sébastien Pernecker, Maxime Rombach, Malak Galal +13
The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope Multi-Object Spectrograph requires an unprecedented fiber positioning system comprising 30'000 low-resolution and 2'000 high-resolution posit…
Advancing Control Electronics for Next-Generation Astronomical Fiber Robotic Positioners
Sebastien Pernecker, Jonathan Wei, Maxime Rombach +3
Next-generation spectroscopic surveys require compact, high-density fiber robotic positioner systems achieving 5um precision, placing strict constraints on the size and the power b…
Testing of a 15-Positioner Module Based on the MPS Design for Stage-5 Telescopes
Jonathan Wei, Oliver Pineda Suárez, Malak Galal +6
Assessing the performance metrics of theta-phi micro-robotic positioners is a key step toward understanding their operational behavior and ensuring that they meet the specification…
Prototyping of 6.2-mm-Pitch Fiber Positioner Modules for Stage-V Telescope Instrumentation
Malak Galal, Maxime Rombach, Jonathan Wei +18
Small-pitch populated focal planes are essential enabling technologies for the next generation of highly multiplexed astronomical instruments. As modern astrophysics relies on mass…
The Spectroscopic Stage-5 Experiment
Robert Besuner, Arjun Dey, Alex Drlica-Wagner +106
The existence, properties, and dynamics of the dark sectors of our universe pose fundamental challenges to our current model of physics, and large-scale astronomical surveys may be…
MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST) Science White Paper I: Overview of Large-Scale Structure Cosmology in the Era of Stage-V Spectroscopic Surveys
Cheng Zhao, Song Huang, Mengfan He +41
The MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST) is a 6.5-meter telescope under development. Dedicated to highly-multiplexed, wide-field spectroscopic surveys, MUST observes over 20,000 tar…
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…
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)…