Publications

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  • Non-refereed
    Optimising rapid autonomous transient classifications with the New Robotic Telescope
    The New Robotic Telescope (NRT), the 4-metre, next-generation Liverpool Telescope (LT), will be located on La Palma, Canary Islands. The design and development of the world's largest robotic telescope, with a slew speed of approximately 10 degrees/second, poses challenges that have resulted in innovative design concepts, including the scheduling
    Jermak, Helen et al.

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    8
    2022
    Bibcode
    2022SPIE12182E..4GJ
    Citations
    1
  • Non-refereed
    Optimisation of the WEAVE target assignment algorithm
    WEAVE is the new wide-field spectroscopic facility for the prime focus of the William Herschel Telescope in La Palma, Spain. Its fibre positioner is essential for the accurate placement of the spectrograph's ∼ 960-fibre multiplex. To maximise the assignment of its optical fibres, WEAVE uses a simulated annealing algorithm called Configure, 1 which
    Hughes, Sarah et al.

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    8
    2022
    Bibcode
    2022SPIE12184E..6IH
    Citations
    0
  • Non-refereed
    Optical-component-only adaptive optics improved setup
    This paper introduces a new technique for performing binary adaptive optics using optical components only, without the help of any electronic, or optoelectronic device. In this technique, the interferogram produced by the interference of a reference plane wave and the distorted wave modulates a light-driven crystal. The modulated light-driven
    Cagigal, Manuel P. et al.

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    8
    2022
    Bibcode
    2022SPIE12185E..77C
    Citations
    0
  • Non-refereed
    Optical design of MAAT: an IFU for the GTC OSIRIS spectrograph
    The Mirror-slicer Array for Astronomical Transients (MAAT) is a new IFU for the OSIRIS spectrograph on the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) at La Palma, spectrograph that has been recently upgraded with a new detector and moved to the Cassegrain focus. Funding has been secured to build MAAT. We present the nearly final design, its expected
    Content, Robert et al.

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    8
    2022
    Bibcode
    2022SPIE12184E..65C
    Citations
    0
  • Non-refereed
    Optical design of an image slicer-based integral field unit for the THEMIS solar telescope
    THEMIS, a 90 cm solar telescope, offers spectropolarimetric observations in the VIS and NIR spectral ranges through a long-slit spectrograph. Now, an image slicer-based Integral Field Unit (IFU) is being developed as an evolution of the long-slit set-up. The IFU will allow observing a 2D Field-of-View (FoV) and several spectral regions
    Regalado Olivares, Silvia et al.

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    8
    2022
    Bibcode
    2022SPIE12188E..57R
    Citations
    1
  • Non-refereed
    Optical and mechanical updates in the GREGOR Infrared Spectrograph for simultaneous spectral observations
    The GREGOR Infrared Spectrograph (GRIS) can perform spectropolarimetric observations in 1.0-1.8 μm and pure spectroscopic in the band 2.0-2.3 μm. The spectrograph has a Czerny-Turner design and has allowed the operation in the traditional long-slit mode since 2014. And also, in IFU mode since was upgraded in 2018. A third upgrade took place in 2021
    Regalado Olivares, Silvia et al.

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    8
    2022
    Bibcode
    2022SPIE12188E..5BR
    Citations
    2