Bibcode
Bates, Stuart D.; Steele, Iain A.; Mottram, Chris J.; Jermak, Helen E.; Tromp, Niels; Kragt, Jan; Elswijk, Eddy; Pragt, Johan; Stuik, Remko; Barnsley, Robert; Monroe, Charles; Dalton, Gavin; Trager, Scott; Lopez Aguerri, Jose Alfonso; Bonifacio, Piercarlo; Vallenari, Antonella; Carrasco, Esperanza; Abrams, Don Carlos; Middleton, Kevin
Bibliographical reference
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10709, id. 107091Z 16 pp. (2018).
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2018
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Description
WEAVE is the new multi-object spectrograph for the William Herschel
Telescope on La Palma. The culmination of prime focus, the large number
of fibers and the wide resolution range has required a stringent optical
design, which in turn demands a spectrograph with tight positional
tolerances and large final focal plane. To capture this focal plane each
of the two cryostats has two e2v 6k × 6k CCDs mounted as a mosaic.
As well as being cooled to 150K via liquid nitrogen, the positional
tolerances for the sensitive areas are flatness 60μm p-v over the
entire image area, rotation around X and Y axis +/-50 arcmin,
translation in X, Y and Z +/- 50 micron. We have used a Stil confocal
measuring head mounted on two Thorlab translation stages to create a X,Y
mount, controlled by a Raspberry Pi that is capable of recording
measurements in Z to better than 1μm accuracy. This is used to
measure the flatness and deformation of the image area under vacuum, and
when cooled to 150K and the overall tip and tilt of the image plane to
ensure they meet specification and are repeatable. In addition to this
measuring system, we use a Thorlabs CMOS camera with a Navitar 50mm lens
to ensure each CCDs image area is within specification with regards X
and Y translation. In order to satisfy the above requirements, we
designed the CCD mount to be adjustable (on initial setup), correctly
constrained, isolated from liquid nitrogen boil-off vibration, and
thermally insulating.