Advances in the Echidna fiber-positioning technology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9151, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Sheinis, Andrew ^a   Saunders, Will ^a   Gillingham, Peter ^a   Farrell, Tony J ^a   Muller, Rolf ^a   Smedley, Scott ^a   Brzeski, Jurek ^a   Waller, Lewis G ^a   Gilbert, James ^b   Smith, Greg ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; FIBERS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; SURVEYS; TELESCOPES; YIELD STRESS;

EFFICIENCY GAIN; FIBER POSITIONER; FIBER POSITIONING; FIBER STRESS; LABORATORY TESTING; SPECTROSCOPIC INSTRUMENT; SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS; SUBARU TELESCOPES;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 84922711922     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2057126     Document Type: Conference Paper

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