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20022023
most citedThe Anglo-Australian Observatory's 2dF Facility

348 citations · 604 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

GHOST Commissioning Science Results: Identifying a new chemically peculiar star in Reticulum II

Christian R. Hayes, Kim A. Venn, Fletcher Waller +79

The Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) is the newest high resolution spectrograph to be developed for a large aperture telescope, recently deployed and commissione…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 9 cited

First Light Results from the Hermes Spectrograph at the AAT

Andrew Sheinis, Borja Anguiano, Martin Asplund +60

The High Efficiency and Resolution Multi Element Spectrograph, HERMES, is a facility-class optical spectrograph for the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). It is designed primarily f…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 15 cited

Prime focus wide-field corrector designs with lossless atmospheric dispersion correction

Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, Greg Smith +2

Wide-Field Corrector designs are presented for the Blanco and Mayall telescopes, the CFHT and the AAT. The designs are Terezibh-style, with 5 or 6 lenses, and modest negative optic…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 8 cited

'MOHAWK' : a 4000-fiber positioner for DESpec

Will Saunders, Greg Smith, James Gilbert +6

We present a concept for a 4000-fibre positioner for DESpec, based on the Echidna 'tilting spine' technology. The DESpec focal plane is 450mm across and curved, and the required pi…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 10 cited

The Fibre Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) for Subaru Telescope

Masahiko Kimura, Toshinori Maihara, Fumihide Iwamuro +39

Fibre Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) is the first near-infrared instrument with a wide field of view capable of acquiring spectra simultaneously from up to 400 objects. It has be…

astro-ph2006★ 211 cited

Performance of AAOmega: the AAT multi-purpose fibre-fed spectrograph

R. Sharp, W. Saunder, G. Smith +11

AAOmega is the new spectrograph for the 2dF fibre-positioning system on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. It is a bench-mounted, double-beamed design, using volume phase holographic…

astro-ph2002★ 348 cited

The Anglo-Australian Observatory's 2dF Facility

I. J. Lewis, R. D. Cannon, K. Taylor +20

The 2dF (Two-degree Field) facility at the prime focus of the Anglo-Australian Telescope provides multiple object spectroscopy over a 2 degree field of view. Up to 400 target fibre…