The SDSS-V local volume mapper fibre cable assembly and metrology

Tobias Feger*, Ellen Houston, Yevgen Kripak, Ross Zhelem, Timothy Chin, David Adams, Scott Case, David Robertson, Jon Lawrence, Tom M. Herbst, Pavan Bilgi, Nicholas P. Konidaris II, Leon Aslan, Guillermo Blanc, Stefanie Wachter, Solange Ramirez, Niv Drory, Juna Kollmeier, Cynthia S. Froning

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Abstract

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS–V) is an all-sky spectroscopic survey of >6 million objects, designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, reveal the inner workings of stars, investigate the origin of solar systems, and track the growth of supermassive black holes across the universe. The Local Volume Mapper (LVM) is a facility designed to provide a contiguous 2500 deg2 integral-field survey over a 3.5 year period from Las Campañas Observatory (LCO) in Chile. The facility comprises four 0.16 m bench-mounted telescopes that feed three multi-object spectrographs with 1801 science fibres, 119 calibration fibres, and 24 sky-background fibres. The fibre cable spans approximately 20 meters from the telescope platform to the spectrograph slits. A sorting hat, located in the spectrograph room, redistributes the 1944 fibres into three 648–element bundles that terminate at the spectrograph slits. In this paper, we briefly summarize the current production progress of the integral-field units, the spectrograph slits, and the sorting hat.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGround-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX
EditorsChristopher J. Evans, Julia J. Bryant, Kentaro Motohara
Place of PublicationBellingham, Washington
PublisherSPIE
Pages1-9
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781510653504
ISBN (Print)9781510653498
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
EventGround-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX 2022 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: 17 Jul 202222 Jul 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE
PublisherSPIE
Volume12184
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceGround-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX 2022
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period17/07/2222/07/22

Bibliographical note

Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS website is www.sdss5.org. SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS Collaboration, including the Carnegie Institution for Science, Chilean National Time Allocation Commitee (CN-TAC) ratified researchers, the Gotham Participation Group, Harvard University, The Johns Hopkins University, L’Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Nanjing University, National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC), New Mexico State University, The Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the Stellar Astrophysics Participation Group, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Arizona, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Toronto, University of Utah, University of Virginia, and Yale University.

Keywords

  • LVM
  • spectrograph
  • integral field unit
  • spectroscopic survey
  • multi-object spectroscopy
  • optical fibres

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