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Spine development for the Echidna fiber positioner

Moore et al., 2003

Document ID
8785102885824826644
Author
Moore A
Gillingham P
Griesbach J
Akiyama M
Publication year
Publication venue
Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes

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The Echidna multi-object fiber positioner is part of the Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) project for the prime focus of the Subaru telescope. Given the physical size of the focal plane and the required number of fibers (400), a positioning system based on the …
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