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

Nuria P. F. 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

doi:10.1117/12.2541306

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

Nuria P. F. 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 VuongLewis Waller, Ross Zhelem

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Australian Astronomical Optics

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Abstract

The Starbug technology¹ developed by AAO-MQ allows fibre positioners to be built with large multiplexing capabilities. The Starbug robots are positionable individually and in parallel, which results in significant configuration time improvements over what can be achieved by single-arm pick and place robots. Their design allows the Starbugs to carry a complex payload, and their movement mechanism and vacuum adhesion to the instrument's glass field plate at the telescope's focal plane means that they can be used to position fibres on a non-planar surface.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019
Editors	Simon Ellis, Céline d'Orgeville
Place of Publication	Bellingham, Washington
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	1-2
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510631472
ISBN (Print)	9781510631465
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2541306
Publication status	Published - 3 Jan 2020
Event	Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019 - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 9 Dec 2019 → 12 Dec 2019

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE
Publisher	SPIE
Volume	11203
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	9/12/19 → 12/12/19

Keywords

Astronomical instrumentation
Fibre positioner
Fibre positioning systems
Fibre robots
High multiplex and survey instruments
Multi-object spectroscopy
Spectroscopy
Starbugs
TAIPAN

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Lorente, N. P. F., Birchall, M., Brown, R., Case, S., Chapman, S., Churilov, V., Farrell, T., Fernando, N., Goodwin, M., Horton, A., Klauser, U., Kuehn, K., Lawrence, J., Mali, S., Mcgregor, H., Muller, R., Nichani, V., Pai, N., Smedley, S., ... Zhelem, R. (2020). The TAIPAN Starbugs fibre positioner and spectrograph: integration, commissioning, and initial performance. In S. Ellis, & C. d'Orgeville (Eds.), Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019 (pp. 1-2). Article 112030C (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 11203). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2541306

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Lorente, NPF, Birchall, M, Brown, R, Case, S, Chapman, S, Churilov, V, Farrell, T, Fernando, N, Goodwin, M , Horton, A, Klauser, U, Kuehn, K, Lawrence, J, Mali, S, Mcgregor, H, Muller, R, Nichani, V, Pai, N, Smedley, S, Vuong, M, Waller, L & Zhelem, R 2020, The TAIPAN Starbugs fibre positioner and spectrograph: integration, commissioning, and initial performance. in S Ellis & C d'Orgeville (eds), Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019., 112030C, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 11203, SPIE, Bellingham, Washington, pp. 1-2, Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019, Melbourne, Australia, 9/12/19. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2541306

The TAIPAN Starbugs fibre positioner and spectrograph: integration, commissioning, and initial performance. / Lorente, Nuria P. F.; Birchall, Michael; Brown, Rebecca et al.
Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019. ed. / Simon Ellis; Céline d'Orgeville. Bellingham, Washington: SPIE, 2020. p. 1-2 112030C (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 11203).

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