The commissioning instrument for the Gran Telescopio Canarias: made in Mexico

Salvador Cuevas; Beatriz Sánchez; Vicente Bringas; Carlos Espejo; Rubén Flores; Oscar Chapa; Gerardo Lara; Armando Chavoya; Gustavo Anguiano; Sadot Arciniega; Ariel Dorantes; José Luis Gonzalez; Juan Manuel Montoya; Rafael Toral; Hugo Hernández; Roberto Nava; Nicolas Devaney; Javier Castro; Luis Cavaller; Alejandro Farah; Javier Godoy; Francisco Cobos; Carlos Tejada; Fernando Garfias

doi:10.1117/12.674622

10 February 2006 The commissioning instrument for the Gran Telescopio Canarias: made in Mexico

Salvador Cuevas, Beatriz Sánchez, Vicente Bringas, Carlos Espejo, Rubén Flores, Oscar Chapa, Gerardo Lara, Armando Chavoya, Gustavo Anguiano, Sadot Arciniega, Ariel Dorantes, José Luis Gonzalez, Juan Manuel Montoya, Rafael Toral, Hugo Hernández, Roberto Nava, Nicolas Devaney, Javier Castro, Luis Cavaller, Alejandro Farah, Javier Godoy, Francisco Cobos, Carlos Tejada, Fernando Garfias

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Proceedings Volume 6046, Fifth Symposium Optics in Industry; 604628 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.674622
Event: Fifth Symposium Optics in Industry, 2005, Santiago De Queretaro, Mexico

Abstract

In March 2004 was accepted in the site of Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) in La Palma Island, Spain, the Commissioning Instrument (CI) for the GTC. During the GTC integration phase, the CI will be a diagnostic tool for performance verification. The CI features four operation modes-imaging, pupil imaging, Curvature Wave-front sensing (WFS), and high resolution Shack-Hartmann WFS. This instrument was built by the Instituto de Astronomia UNAM in Mexico City and the Centro de Ingenieria y Desarrollo Industrial (CIDESI) in Queretaro, Qro under a GRANTECAN contract after an international public bid. Some optical components were built by Centro de Investigaciones en Optica (CIO) in Leon Gto and the biggest mechanical parts were manufactured by Vatech in Morelia Mich. In this paper we made a general description of the CI and we relate how this instrument, build under international standards, was entirely made in Mexico.

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Salvador Cuevas, Beatriz Sánchez, Vicente Bringas, Carlos Espejo, Rubén Flores, Oscar Chapa, Gerardo Lara, Armando Chavoya, Gustavo Anguiano, Sadot Arciniega, Ariel Dorantes, José Luis Gonzalez, Juan Manuel Montoya, Rafael Toral, Hugo Hernández, Roberto Nava, Nicolas Devaney, Javier Castro, Luis Cavaller, Alejandro Farah, Javier Godoy, Francisco Cobos, Carlos Tejada, and Fernando Garfias "The commissioning instrument for the Gran Telescopio Canarias: made in Mexico", Proc. SPIE 6046, Fifth Symposium Optics in Industry, 604628 (10 February 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.674622

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