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Rebecca A. Brown

Optical Engineer at Australian Astronomical Optics Macquarie Univ

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Publications (27)

Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Presentation + Paper

Presentation + Paper

Hector: performance of the new integral field spectrograph instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope

Julia Bryant, Sree Oh, Madusha Gunawardhana, Gabriella Quattropani, Gurashish Singh Bhatia, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, David Broderick, Rebecca Brown, Robert Content, Scott Croom, Fred Crous, Tony Farrell, Peter Gillingham, Ellen Houston, Jon Lawrence, Helen McGregor, Seong-Sik Minh, Mahesh Mohanan, Barnaby Norris, Matthew Owers, Naveen Pai, David Robertson, Will Saunders, Sam Vaughan, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Adeline Wang, Ross Zhelem, Jessica Zheng

Proceedings Volume 13096, 130960D (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3016340

KEYWORDS: Galactic astronomy, Spectrographs, Equipment, Telescopes, Stars, Magnetism, Astronomical imaging, Prisms, Spectral resolution

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Presentation + Paper

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The SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper Instrument

Nicholas Konidaris, Thomas Herbst, Cynthia Froning, Stefanie Wachter, Solange Ramírez, Juna Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Niv Drory, Guillermo Blanc, Jose Sánchez-Gallego, Carlos Godoy Alfaro, Hojae Ahn, Leon Aslan, Felipe Besser, Pavan Bilgi, Peter Bizenberger, Dmitry Bizyaev, Julia Brady, Rebecca Brown, Florian Briegel, Mauricio Flores Cabrales, Scott Case, John Donor, Tobias Feger, Wolfgang Gaessler, Maximilian Häberle, Ellen Houston, Charlie Hull, Amy Jones, Changgon Kim, Vince Kowal, Yevgen Kripak, Kathryn Kreckel, Markus Kuhlberg, Alicia Lanz, Michael Lesser, Richard Mathar, Lars Mohr, Francisco Morales, Soojong Pak, Povilas Palunas, Richard Pogge, Christopher Ritz, David Robertson, Marcelo Rodriguez, Ralf-Rainer Rohloff, Alan Uomoto, Ming Yeong, Abner Zapata, Ross Zhelem

Proceedings Volume 13096, 130961Z (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019892

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Telescopes, Cryostats, Observatories, Equipment, Lens arrays, Image quality, Mirrors, Lanthanum, Charge-coupled devices

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster + Paper

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Overall performance of AESOP: the 4MOST fibre positioner

Jurek Brzeski, David Adams, Gabriella Baker, Sufyan Baker, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Timothy Chin, Jack Coyne, Tony Farrell, Peter Gillingham, Ellen Houston, Urs Klauser, Yevgen Kripak, Nirmala Kunwar, Jon Lawrence, Slavko Mali, Wojtek Maslak, Helen McGregor, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Naveen Pai, Ellie O'brien, Will Saunders, Scott Smedley, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Lew Waller, Jahanzeb Zahoor, Jessica Zheng

Proceedings Volume 12184, 121846M (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2627900

KEYWORDS: Spine, Actuators, Fiber science, Telescopes, Tolerancing, Metrology, Galactic astronomy, Calibration, Assembly tolerances, Spectrographs

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster + Paper

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Development of the FOBOS focal plane positioner

David Adams, Jon Lawrence, Helen McGregor, Ellie O'Brien, Celestina Lacombe, Nuria Lorente, Michael Goodwin, Rebecca Brown, Michael Thomakos, Tayyaba Zafar, Nick MacDonald, Kyle Westfall, Kevin Bundy, Renate Kupke, Marc Kassis, Claire Poppett

Proceedings Volume 12184, 121846K (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2627289

KEYWORDS: Galactic astronomy, Spectrographs, Robots, Spectroscopy, Optical fibers, Glasses, Astronomical imaging, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

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TAIPAN starbugs: commissioning and the start of science observations

Rebecca Brown, Tony Farrell, Nuwanthika Fernando, Michael Goodwin, Anthony Horton, Celestina Lacombe, Jon Lawrence, Nuria Lorente, Helen McGregor, Ellie O'Brien, Lewis Waller, Tayyaba Zafar, Jessica Zheng

Proceedings Volume 12184, 121840Y (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629109

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Metrology, Connectors, Optical fibers, Spectrographs, Astronomical spectroscopy, Mechanical positioning systems, Technology

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster + Paper

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AESOP, the 4MOST fibre positioner: engineering principles

Jurek Brzeski, Dave Adams, Gabriella Baker, Sufyan Baker, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Timothy Chin, Jack Coyne, Tony Farrell, James Gibson, Peter Gillingham, Ellen Houston, Urs Klauser, Yevgen Kripak, Nirmala Kunwar, Jon Lawrence, Slavko Mali, Wojtek Maslak, Helen McGregor, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Naveen Pai, Ellie O'brien, Will Saunders, Scott Smedley, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Lew Waller, Jahanzeb Zahoor, Jessica Zheng

Proceedings Volume 12184, 121846N (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2627903

KEYWORDS: Spine, Telescopes, Tolerancing, Assembly tolerances, Interfaces, Metrology, Kinematics, Assembly equipment, Sensors, Manufacturing

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster + Paper

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Hector spectrograph (spector): mechanical engineering overview

Mahesh Mohanan, Julia Bryant, Rebecca Brown, Scott Croom, Robert Content, Tony Farrell, Michael Goodwin, Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn, Ellen Houston, Urs Klauser, Jon Lawrence, Helen McGregor, Naveen Pai, David Robertson, Will Saunders, Lew Waller, Ross Zhelem, Jessica Zheng

Proceedings Volume 12184, 121847P (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630617

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Collimators, Kinematics, Cameras, Mechanical engineering, Sensors, Optical alignment, Beam splitters, Tolerancing, Interfaces

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster + Paper

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Spector: integration and performance of the multi-object spectrograph for the Anglo-Australian Telescope

Ross Zhelem, Julia Bryant, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Rebecca Brown, Robert Content, Scott Croom, Tony Farrell, Michael Goodwin, Ellen Houston, Urs Klauser, Jon Lawrence, Slavko Mali, Rolf Muller, Richard Mcdermid, Helen McGregor, Mahesh Mohanan, Barnaby Norris, Naveen Pai, David Robertson, Will Saunders, Lew Waller, Adeline Wang, Jessica Zheng

Proceedings Volume 12184, 1218475 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629649

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Telescopes, Sensors, Cameras, Wavefronts, Optical alignment, Collimators, Spectral resolution, Interferometry, Astronomical imaging

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Proceedings Article | 25 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

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Application of model-based systems engineering to MANIFEST conceptual design

Michael Goodwin, David Adams, Rebecca Brown, Vitor Hartmann, Celestina Lacombe, Carlos H. N. Lahoz, Jon Lawrence, D. May, Ellie O'Brien, Tayyaba Zafar

Proceedings Volume 12187, 1218704 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628849

KEYWORDS: Systems modeling, Systems engineering, Model-based design, Instrument modeling, Functional analysis

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Proceedings Article | 25 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

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GMT-MANIFEST project cost estimate case: applying the PMBOK Guide to the costing of instrumentation for ELTs

Celestina Lacombe, Jon Lawrence, Scott Smedley, Rebecca Brown, Ellie O'Brien, Lew Waller, Michael Goodwin, Jessica Zheng, Scott Case, David Adams, Vitor Hartmann

Proceedings Volume 12187, 1218703 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628270

KEYWORDS: Prototyping, Interfaces, Telescopes, Structured optical fibers, Green fluorescent protein, Systems engineering, Glasses, Electronics, Manufacturing, Control systems design

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

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Hector: a new multi-object integral field spectrograph instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope

Julia Bryant, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jon Lawrence, Barnaby Norris, Seong-Sik Min, Rebecca Brown, Adeline Wang, Gurashish Singh Bhatia, Will Saunders, Robert Content, Ross Zhelem, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Mahesh Mohanan, Peter Gillingham, Robert Patterson, David Robertson, Naveen Pai, Helen McGregor, Jessica Zheng, Sam Vaughan, Caroline Foster, Sergio Leon-Saval, Scott Croom

Proceedings Volume 11447, 1144715 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560309

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Galactic astronomy, Telescopes, Iterated function systems, Robotics, Environmental sensing, Stars, Spectral resolution, Kinematics, Prototyping

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

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The Hector Instrument: performance of the Hector fibre integral field units

Adeline Haobing Wang, Rebecca Brown, Julia Bryant, Sergio Leon-Saval

Proceedings Volume 11447, 114478G (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561514

KEYWORDS: Galactic astronomy, Iterated function systems, Astronomical imaging, Field spectroscopy, Telescopes, Multimode fibers, Astronomy, Optical fibers, Glasses

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Proceedings Article | 3 January 2020 Paper

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Hexabundle optical fibre imaging devices for the Hector instrument

Adeline Haobing Wang, Rebecca Brown, Julia Bryant, Sergio Leon-Saval

Proceedings Volume 11203, 1120317 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2539992

KEYWORDS: Optical fibers, Imaging devices, Galactic astronomy, Telescopes, Spectrographs, Kinematics, Cladding, Etching, Optical fabrication, Manufacturing

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Proceedings Article | 3 January 2020 Paper

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The TAIPAN Starbugs fibre positioner and spectrograph: integration, commissioning, and initial performance

Nuria P. Lorente, Michael Birchall, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Steve Chapman, Vladimir Churilov, Tony Farrell, Nuwanthika Fernando, Michael Goodwin, Anthony Horton, Urs Klauser, Kyler Kuehn, Jon Lawrence, Slavko Mali, Helen McGregor, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Naveen Pai, Scott Smedley, Minh Vuong, Lewis Waller, Ross Zhelem

Proceedings Volume 11203, 112030C (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2541306

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Robots, Telescopes, Robotic systems, Galactic astronomy, Control systems, Metrology, Optical fibers, Extragalactic astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 9 September 2019 Presentation + Paper

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Development and focal ratio degradation optimisation of integral field units on Hector

Adeline Haobing Wang, Rebecca Brown, Julia Bryant, Sergio Leon-Saval

Proceedings Volume 11115, 1111509 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2529212

KEYWORDS: Galactic astronomy, Optical fibers, Spectrographs, Astronomy, Astronomical imaging, Astrophysics, Imaging devices

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Proceedings Article | 13 July 2018 Paper

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Wide-field multi-object spectroscopy with MANIFEST

Jon Lawrence, Sagi Ben-Ami, David Brown, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Timothy Chin, Matthew Colless, Adam Contos, Darren Depoy, Ian Evans, Daniel Faes, Tony Farrell, Peter Gillingham, Michael Goodwin, Sungwook Hong, Narae Hwang, Wong-Seob Jeong, Urs Klauser, Kyler Kuehn, Nuria Lorente, Slavko Mali, Jennifer Marshall, Helen McGregor, Rolf Muller, Rafael Millan-Gabet, Vijay Nichani, Claudia Oliveria, Henrique Ortolan, naveen Pai, Sung-Joon Park, Travis Prochaska, Will Saunders, Luke Schmidt, Aline Souza, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Lew Waller, Ross Zhelem

Proceedings Volume 10702, 10702A6 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314178

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectrographs, Optical instrument design

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Paper

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4MOST fibre feed: performance and final design

Dionne Haynes, Allar Saviauk, Andreas Kelz, Roger Haynes, Thomas Jahn, Dennis Plüschke, Swara Rahurkar, Florian Zscheyge, Johannes Piotrowski, Rebecca Brown

Proceedings Volume 10702, 1070289 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313704

KEYWORDS: Connectors, Spectrographs, Spine, Fiber science, Calibration, Telescopes, Computer aided design, Manufacturing, Space telescopes, Optical fibers

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Paper

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Acquisition and guiding for TAIPAN using Starbugs

Carlos Bacigalupo, Michael Goodwin, Rebecca Brown, David Brown, Scott Case, Tony Farrell, Kyler Kuehn, Nuria Lorente

Proceedings Volume 10706, 107065V (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2307057

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Stars, Telescopes, Metrology, Polymers, Target acquisition, Calibration, Distortion, Point spread functions, Control systems

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Paper

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New-generation hexabundles: development and initial results

Rebecca Brown, Adeline Wang, Julia Bryant, Sergio Leon-Saval

Proceedings Volume 10706, 1070663 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313033

KEYWORDS: Galactic astronomy, Spectrographs, Optical fibers, Prototyping, Cladding, Light, Telescopes, Calibration

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Paper

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Performance of the first production-ready actuators for the 4MOST-AESOP fiber positioner

Scott Smedley, Gabriella Baker, Sufyan Baker, Scott Case, Rebecca Brown, Jurek Brzeski, Peter Gillingham, Urs Klauser, Jon Lawrence, Slavko Mali, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Naveen Pai, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Lew Waller

Proceedings Volume 10702, 107027Z (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312863

KEYWORDS: Spine, Actuators, Connectors, Manufacturing, Tolerancing, Structured optical fibers, Calibration

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Proceedings Article | 9 July 2018 Presentation

Presentation

TAIPAN: the AAO's first Starbug positioner and spectrograph (Conference Presentation)

Nuria P. Lorente, Kyler Kuehn, Jon Lawrence, Carlos Bacigalupo, David Brown, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Steve Chapman, Vladimir Churilov, Robert Content, Tony Farrell, Michael Goodwin, Urs Klauser, Slavko Mali, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Naveen Pai, Scott Smedley, Minh Vuong, Lewis Waller, Ross Zhelem, Helen McGregor

Proceedings Volume 10702, 107021A (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313032

KEYWORDS: Astronomical imaging, Telescopes, Spectroscopes, Spectrographs, Observatories, Prototyping, Robots, Optical fibers, Glasses, Galactic astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 8 July 2018 Paper

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AESOP: the 4MOST fiber positioner

Jurek Brzeski, Gabriella Baker, Sufyan Baker, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Tony Farrell, Peter Gillingham, Urs Klauser, Jon Lawrence, Slavko Mali, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Naveen Pai, Scott Smedley, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Lew Waller

Proceedings Volume 10702, 1070279 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2310062

KEYWORDS: Kinematics, Actuators, Electronics, Tolerancing, Telescopes, Assembly tolerances, Adhesives

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

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Hector: a modular integral field spectrograph instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope

Julia Bryant, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jon Lawrence, Will Saunders, Robert Content, Scott Croom, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Mahesh Mohanan, Rebecca Brown, Adeline Wang, Ross Zhelem, Peter Gillingham, Robert Patterson, Helen McGregor, Warrick Couch, Jesse van de Sande, Richard McDermid, Sergio Leon-Saval

Proceedings Volume 10702, 107021H (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309893

KEYWORDS: Galactic astronomy, Spectral resolution, Spectrographs, Kinematics, Telescopes, Ionization, Robotics, Astronomy

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Based on the success of the SAMI integral field spectrograph (IFS) instrument on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) the capacity for large IFS nearby galaxy surveys on the AAT is being substantially expanded with a new instrument called Hector. The high filling-fraction imaging fibre bundles ‘hexabundles’ of the type used on SAMI, are being enlarged to cover up to 30-arcsec diameter. The aim is to reach two effective radii on most galaxies, where the galaxy rotation curve flattens and >75% of the specific angular momentum of disk galaxies is accounted for. Driven by the key science case, Hector will have a 1.3A spectral resolution, enabling high-order stellar kinematics to be measured on a larger fraction of galaxies than with any other IFS instrument. Hector will be on sky in 2019. The first module of Hector, Hector-I, will have 21 hexabundles and >42 sky fibres to observe 20 galaxies and a calibration star simultaneously. It consists of new blue and red-arm spectrographs that have been designed at the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO; now called AAO-Macquarie), coupled to the new hexabundles and robotic positioner from AAO-USydney (formerly the Sydney Astrophotonics Instrumentation Laboratory, SAIL) at Sydney University. A novel robotic positioning concept will compensate for varying telecentricity over the 2-degree-field of the AAT to recoup the 20% loss in light at the edge of the field. Hector-I will survey 15,000 galaxies. Additional modules in the future would result in 30,000 galaxies. Hector will take integral field spectroscopy on galaxies with z<0.15 in the 4MOST WAVES-North and WAVES-South∗ regions. The WAVES data, which will come later, will give the environment metrics neces- sary to relate how local and global environments influence galaxy growth through gas accretion, star formation and spins measured with Hector. The WALLABY ASKAP† survey will trace HI gas across the Hector fields, which in combination with Hector will give a complete view of gas accretion and star formation.

Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Paper

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Sphinx: a massively multiplexed fiber positioner for MSE

Scott Smedley, Gabriella Baker, Rebecca Brown, James Gilbert, Peter Gillingham, Will Saunders, Andrew Sheinis, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Lew Waller

Proceedings Volume 10702, 107021M (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2310021

KEYWORDS: Spine, Actuators, Metrology, Telescopes, Calibration

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

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The MANIFEST prototyping design study

Jonathan Lawrence, Sagi Ben-Ami, David Brown, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Steve Chapman, Vladimir Churilov, Matthew Colless, Robert Content, Darren Depoy, Ian Evans, Tony Farrell, Michael Goodwin, George Jacoby, Urs Klauser, Kyler Kuehn, Nuria P. Lorente, Slavko Mali, Jennifer Marshall, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Naveen Pai, Travis Prochaska, Will Saunders, Luke Schmidt, Keith Shortridge, Nicholas Staszak, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Julia Tims, Minh Vuong, Lewis Waller, Ross Zhelem

Proceedings Volume 9908, 99089O (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232412

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Prototyping, Spectrographs, Optical instrument design, Optical instrument design, Cameras, Interfaces, Connectors, Metrology, Glasses, Galactic astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 22 July 2016 Paper

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TAIPAN instrument fibre positioner and Starbug robots: engineering overview

Nicholas Staszak, Jon Lawrence, David Brown, Rebecca Brown, Ross Zhelem, Michael Goodwin, Kyler Kuehn, Nuria P. Lorente, Vijay Nichani, Lew Waller, Scott Case, Robert Content, Andrew Hopkins, Urs Klauser, Naveen Pai, Rolf Mueller, Slavko Mali, Minh Vuong

Proceedings Volume 9912, 99121W (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233583

KEYWORDS: Metrology, Telescopes, Glasses, Connectors, Cameras, Control systems, Space telescopes, Fiber science, Electronics, Coating

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Proceedings Article | 22 July 2016 Paper

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TAIPAN fibre feed and spectrograph: engineering overview

Nicholas Staszak, Jon Lawrence, Ross Zhelem, Robert Content, Vladimir Churilov, Scott Case, Rebecca Brown, Andrew Hopkins, Kyler Kuehn, Naveen Pai, Urs Klauser, Vijay Nichani, Lew Waller

Proceedings Volume 9912, 991223 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233796

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Collimators, Telescopes, Aspheric lenses, Cameras, Sensors, Neodymium, Galactic astronomy, Connectors, Ions

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