2 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
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…
astro-ph.IM2026
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…