Elmer Mechanics: Manufacturing, Integration and Testing

Maldonado, M.; Martín-Fleitas, J. M.; Cavaller-Marqués, L.; García-Vargas, M. L.
Bibliographical reference

II International GTC Workshop: Science with GTC 1st-light Instruments and the LMT (Eds. A. M. Hidalgo-Gámez, J. J. González, J. M. Rodríguez Espinosa, and S. Torres-Peimbert) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 24, pp. 256-257 (2005) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)

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2005
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Description
ELMER is a visible imager-spectrograph currently scheduled to be in operation at the GTC on Day One. The design phase of the ELMER Structure and Mechanisms ended on November 2002. Since then, after manufacturing and mechanical integration, an exhaustive test campaign at factory was carried out. We present the fabrication and assembly highlights and the overall performance of the mechanics prior to the integration of the optics.