Performance of Echidna fiber positioner for FMOS on Subaru

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7018, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Akiyama, Masayuki ^a,b   Smedley, Scott ^c   Gillingham, Peter ^c   Brzeski, Jurek ^c   Farrell, Tony ^c   Kimura, Masahiko ^b   Muller, Rolf ^c   Tamura, Naoyuki ^b   Takato, Naruhisa ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fiber positioner; Piezoelectric actuators; Subaru telescope

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOGRAPHY; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; SEA LEVEL; SPECTROGRAPHS; TELESCOPES; WATER LEVELS;

AS FIBERS; COMMISSIONING TESTS; FIBER POSITIONING; MULTI OBJECTS; NEAR INFRARED; SUBARU TELESCOPE; SUBARU TELESCOPES;

FIBERS;

EID: 56249134928     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788968     Document Type: Conference Paper

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