Spine development for the Echidna fiber positioner

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1429-1439

  Moore, Anna ^a   Gillingham, Peter ^a   Griesbach, Jason ^a   Akiyama, Masayuki ^b  

^a ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inertial drive; Multi object spectroscopy; Optical fibers; Quadrant tube piezoelectric actuator; Subaru telescope

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

MULTI OBJECT SPECTROSCOPY;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037958575     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.462333     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. M. Kimura et al., "Fibre-Multi-Object Spetrograph (FMOS) for Subaru Telescope," in Optical/IR Ground Based Instrumentation, A. Moorwood, ed., Proc. SPIE 4841, (in press), 2002.
2. P. Gillingham et al, "Echidna - a Multi-Fiber Positioner for the Subaru Telescope," in Optical and IR instrumentation and detectors, M. Iye, A. Moorwood, ed., Proc. SPIE 4008, pp. 1395-1403, 2000.