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The optical high-resolution spectral archive of the HERMES spectrograph mounted on the 1.2m Mercator telescope
Hans Van Winckel, Saskia Prins, Gert Raskin +13
Context. The HERMES spectrograph is a high-resolution, fibre-fed optical spectrograph of the 1.2m Mercator telescope operated from the Roque de los Muchachos observatory in Spain.…
The BlackGEM telescope array I: Overview
Paul J. Groot, S. Bloemen, P. Vreeswijk +75
The main science aim of the BlackGEM array is to detect optical counterparts to gravitational wave mergers. Additionally, the array will perform a set of synoptic surveys to detect…
PLC-controlled cryostats for the BlackGEM and MeerLICHT detectors
Gert Raskin, Johan Morren, Wim Pessemier +5
BlackGEM (BG) is an array of telescopes, currently under development at the Radboud University Nijmegen and at NOVA. It targets the detection of the optical counterparts of gravita…
Large Frame-Transfer Detectors for the MAIA Imager
Jesús Pérez Padilla, Simon Tulloch, Gert Raskin +4
MAIA, the Mercator Advanced Imager for Asteroseismology, is a new fast-cadence 3-channel photometric instrument. It is installed on the 1.2-m Mercator telescope at the Roque de Los…
Compact Stirling cooling of astronomical detectors
Gert Raskin, Johan Morren, Wim Pessemier +2
MAIA, a three-channel imager targeting fast cadence photometry, was recently installed on the Mercator telescope (La Palma, Spain). This instrument observes a 9.4 x 14.1 arcmin fie…
A practical approach to ontology-enabled control systems for astronomical instrumentation
Wim Pessemier, Gert Raskin, Hans Van Winckel +2
Even though modern service-oriented and data-oriented architectures promise to deliver loosely coupled control systems, they are inherently brittle as they commonly depend on a pri…
MAIA, a three-channel imager for asteroseismology: instrument design
Gert Raskin, Steven Bloemen, Johan Morren +8
MAIA, an acronym for Mercator Advanced Imager for Asteroseismology, is a three-channel instrument that targets fast-cadence three-colour photometry, installed at the 1.2-m Mercator…
HERMES: a high-resolution fibre-fed spectrograph for the Mercator telescope
Gert Raskin, Hans Van Winckel, Herman Hensberge +18
The HERMES high-resolution spectrograph project aims at exploiting the specific potential of small but flexible telescopes in observational astrophysics. The optimised optical desi…