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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…
ESO-VLT BlueMUSE instrument - Conceptual Design for Phase A
Florence Laurent, Johan Richard, Rémi Giroud +23
BlueMUSE is a blue-optimised, medium spectral resolution, panoramic integral field spectrograph under development for the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). The project is now enter…
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…
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…
Comparative Study of Hollow-Core and Standard Optical Fibers for Astronomy
Malak Galal, Oliver Pineda Suárez, Frédéric Gérôme +3
Efficient light transmission in the blue-visible regime remains a major limitation for fiber-fed astronomical spectrographs, where low photon flux and the intrinsic attenuation of…
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…
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…
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…
Design and Testing of the Motorized 2-DoF Folding Mirror 1 for the VLT BlueMUSE Instrument
Gloria Mellinand, Diane Chapuis Kerouanton, Malak Galal +9
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…
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…
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…