Bibcode
Tomás, Albert; Canchado, Manuel; Casalta, Joan Manel; Dalmases, Francesc; Maroto, Oscar; Martín-Nuño, Carlos; Romero, Antonio; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Herreros, José Miguel; Delgado, José Miguel; Burgal, José Alonso; Abrams, Don Carlos; Dee, Kevin; Lhomé, Emilie; Dalton, Gavin; Middleton, Kevin; Bonifacio, Piercarlo; Trager, Scott C.; Vallenari, Antonella; Carrasco, Esperanza
Referencia bibliográfica
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10706, id. 1070606 9 pp. (2018).
Fecha de publicación:
7
2018
Número de citas
1
Número de citas referidas
0
Descripción
WEAVE is a new wide-field multi-object spectroscopy (MOS) facility
proposed for the prime focus of the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope
(WHT), situated on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. To
allow for the compensation of the effects of temperature-induced and
gravity-induced image degradation, the WEAVE prime focus assembly will
be translated along the telescope optical axis. The assembly comprises
the prime focus corrector (PFC), a central mount for the corrector known
as FTS[1], an instrument rotator and a twin-focal-plane fibre
positioner. SENER, that manufactured and delivered the FTS, is also
responsible for the final design, manufacturing, integration, alignment
and testing of the PFC and its ancillary equipment. This manuscript
describes the final design of the PFC along with the analyses and
simulations performed and presents the procedures for the integration
and alignment of the lenses in the corrector.