Electronics prototypes for the Giant Magellan telescope multi-object astronomical and cosmological spectrograph (GMACS)

Erika Cook; Travis Prochaska; Hye-In Lee; Tae-Geun Ji; Soojong Pak; D. L. DePoy; J. L. Marshall; Luke M. Schmidt; Daniel M. Faes; Cynthia Froning; Damien Jones; Claudia Mendes de Oliveira; Casey Papovich; Rafael A. S. Ribeiro; Aline Souza; Keith Taylor

doi:10.1117/12.2313921

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13 July 2018 Electronics prototypes for the Giant Magellan telescope multi-object astronomical and cosmological spectrograph (GMACS)

Erika Cook; Travis Prochaska; Hye-In Lee; Tae-Geun Ji; Soojong Pak; D. L. DePoy; J. L. Marshall; Luke M. Schmidt; Daniel M. Faes; Cynthia Froning; Damien Jones; Claudia Mendes de Oliveira; Casey Papovich; Rafael A. S. Ribeiro; Aline Souza; Keith Taylor

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Proceedings Volume 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII; 107029Z (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313921
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

We describe the current electronics prototypes for the Flexure Compensation System (FCS) and the Slit Mask Exchange Mechanism (SMEM) for GMACS, a wide-field, multi-object, moderate-resolution optical spectrograph for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). We discuss the details of the FCS and SMEM prototypes, how the prototypes relate to the preliminary conceptual designs of these systems, and what information the prototypes give that can be applied to the final design, as well as the possible next steps for each prototype.

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Erika Cook, Travis Prochaska, Hye-In Lee, Tae-Geun Ji, Soojong Pak, D. L. DePoy, J. L. Marshall, Luke M. Schmidt, Daniel M. Faes, Cynthia Froning, Damien Jones, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Casey Papovich, Rafael A. S. Ribeiro, Aline Souza, and Keith Taylor "Electronics prototypes for the Giant Magellan telescope multi-object astronomical and cosmological spectrograph (GMACS)", Proc. SPIE 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, 107029Z (13 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313921

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