M2FS: The Michigan/Magellan fiber system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8446, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mateo, Mario ^a   Bailey III, John I ^a   Crane, Jeffrey ^b   Shectman, Stephen ^b   Thompson, Ian ^b   Roederer, Ian ^b   Bigelow, Bruce ^c   Gunnels, Steve ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^c Santa Cruz Instruments   (United States)

^d Paragon Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber optics; Ground Based telescopes; Multi Object spectrographs; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION CORRECTORS; FIBER MOUNTING; FIBER POSITIONER; FIBER SYSTEMS; FOCAL SURFACES; GROUND-BASED TELESCOPES; HIGH QUALITY IMAGES; IMAGE SURFACE; MAGELLAN; MICHIGAN; MODES OF OPERATION; MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROGRAPH; OPTOMECHANICAL; SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS; WIDE-FIELD;

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; FIBER OPTICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOUNTINGS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPECTROSCOPY; TELESCOPES;

FIBERS;

EID: 84871959783     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.926448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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