The MANIFEST fibre positioning system for the Giant Magellan Telescope

Jon S. Lawrence; David M. Brown; Jurek Brzeski; Scott Case; Matthew Colless; Tony Farrell; Luke Gers; James Gilbert; Michael Goodwin; George Jacoby; Andrew M. Hopkins; Michael Ireland; Kyler Kuehn; Nuria P. F. Lorente; Stan Miziarski; Rolf Muller; Vijay Nichani; Azizi Rakman; Samuel Richards; Will Saunders; Nick F. Staszak; Julia Tims; Minh Vuong; Lew Waller

doi:10.1117/12.2055742

The MANIFEST fibre positioning system for the Giant Magellan Telescope

Jon S. Lawrence^*, David M. Brown, Jurek Brzeski, Scott Case, Matthew Colless, Tony Farrell, Luke Gers, James Gilbert, Michael Goodwin, George Jacoby, Andrew M. Hopkins, Michael Ireland, Kyler Kuehn, Nuria P. F. Lorente, Stan Miziarski, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Azizi Rakman, Samuel Richards, Will SaundersNick F. Staszak, Julia Tims, Minh Vuong, Lew Waller

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Abstract

MANIFEST is a fibre feed system for the Giant Magellan Telescope that, coupled to the seeing-limited instruments GMACS and G-CLEF, offers qualitative and quantitative gains over each instrument's native capabilities in terms of multiplex, field of view, and resolution. The MANIFEST instrument concept is based on a system of semi-autonomous probes called "Starbugs" that hold and position hundreds of optical fibre IFUs under a glass field plate placed at the GMT Cassegrain focal plane. The Starbug probes feature co-axial piezoceramic tubes that, via the application of appropriate AC waveforms, contract or bend, providing a discrete stepping motion. Simultaneous positioning of all Starbugs is achieved via a closed-loop metrology system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-based and airborne instrumentation for astronomy V
Editors	Suzanne K. Ramsay, Ian S. McLean, Hideki Takami
Place of Publication	Bellingham, WA
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	914794-1-914794-10
Number of pages	10
Volume	9147
ISBN (Print)	9780819496157
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055742
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	5th Conference on Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy - Montreal, Canada Duration: 22 Jun 2014 → 26 Jun 2014

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE
Publisher	SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING
Volume	9147
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Conference	5th Conference on Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	22/06/14 → 26/06/14

Keywords

fibre positioner
Starbugs
fibre robots
GMT

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Lawrence, J. S., Brown, D. M., Brzeski, J., Case, S., Colless, M., Farrell, T., Gers, L., Gilbert, J., Goodwin, M., Jacoby, G., Hopkins, A. M., Ireland, M., Kuehn, K., Lorente, N. P. F., Miziarski, S., Muller, R., Nichani, V., Rakman, A., Richards, S., ... Waller, L. (2014). The MANIFEST fibre positioning system for the Giant Magellan Telescope. In S. K. Ramsay, I. S. McLean, & H. Takami (Eds.), Ground-based and airborne instrumentation for astronomy V (Vol. 9147, pp. 914794-1-914794-10). Article 914794 (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 9147). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055742

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Lawrence, JS, Brown, DM, Brzeski, J, Case, S, Colless, M, Farrell, T, Gers, L, Gilbert, J, Goodwin, M, Jacoby, G, Hopkins, AM, Ireland, M, Kuehn, K, Lorente, NPF, Miziarski, S, Muller, R, Nichani, V, Rakman, A, Richards, S, Saunders, W, Staszak, NF, Tims, J, Vuong, M & Waller, L 2014, The MANIFEST fibre positioning system for the Giant Magellan Telescope. in SK Ramsay, IS McLean & H Takami (eds), Ground-based and airborne instrumentation for astronomy V. vol. 9147, 914794, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 9147, SPIE, Bellingham, WA, pp. 914794-1-914794-10, 5th Conference on Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy, Montreal, Canada, 22/06/14. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055742

The MANIFEST fibre positioning system for the Giant Magellan Telescope. / Lawrence, Jon S.; Brown, David M.; Brzeski, Jurek et al.
Ground-based and airborne instrumentation for astronomy V. ed. / Suzanne K. Ramsay; Ian S. McLean; Hideki Takami. Vol. 9147 Bellingham, WA: SPIE, 2014. p. 914794-1-914794-10 914794 (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 9147).

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