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Title: | The WEAVE focus translation system: from design to construction | Authors: | Canchado, Manuel Romero, Antonio Maroto, Óscar Tomas, Albert Martín-Nuño, Carlos Casalta, Joan Manel Prida, Joaquín. L. Aguerri, J. Alfonso Herreros, José Miguel Delgado, José Miguel Burgal, José Alonso Abrams, Don Carlos Dee, Kevin Dalton, Gavin BONIFACIO, PIERCARLO Trager, Scott C. VALLENARI, Antonella |
Issue Date: | 2016 | Volume: | Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II | Editors: | Navarro, Ramón; Burge, James H. | Series: | PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE | Number: | 9912 | First Page: | 99126D | Abstract: | WEAVE is a new wide-field spectroscopy facility proposed for the prime focus of the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope (WHT), placed in 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 with integrated ADC, a central mount for the corrector, an instrument rotator and a twin-focal-plane fibre positioner. Translation is accomplished through the use of a set of purpose-built actuators; collectively referred to as the Focus Translation System (FTS), formed by four independently-controlled Focus Translation Units (FTUs), eight vanes connecting the FTUs to a central can, and a central can hosting WEAVE Instrument. Each FTU is capable of providing a maximum stroke of +/-4mm with sufficient, combined force to move the five-tonne assembly with a positional accuracy of +/-20μm at a resolution of 5μm. The coordinated movement of the four FTUs allows +/-3mm WEAVE focus adjustment in the optical axis and +/-0.015° tilt correction in one axis. The control of the FTS is accomplished through a PLC-based subsystem that receives positional demands from the higher-level Instrument Control System. SENER has been responsible for designing, manufacturing and testing the FTS and the equipment required to manipulate and store the FTS together with the instrument. This manuscript describes the final design of the FTS along with the analyses and simulations that were performed, discusses the manufacturing procedures and the results of early verification prior to integration with the telescope. The plans for mounting the whole system on the telescope are also discussed. | Conference Name: | Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II | Conference Place: | Edinburgh, UK | Conference Date: | 26 June - 1 July, 2016 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/26366 | URL: | https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/9912/1/The-WEAVE-focus-translation-system-from-design-to-construction/10.1117/12.2232985.full | ISSN: | 0277-786X | ISBN: | 9781510602045 | DOI: | 10.1117/12.2232985 | Bibcode ADS: | 2016SPIE.9912E..6DC | Fulltext: | open |
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