Progress on the development of FAST: the fully automatic spectrograph for the robotic telescope PROMPT-7

Anna Brucalassi; Jose Antonio Araiza-Duran; Giuliano Pignata; Federico Battaini

doi:10.1117/12.2629632

29 August 2022 Progress on the development of FAST: the fully automatic spectrograph for the robotic telescope PROMPT-7

Anna Brucalassi, Jose Antonio Araiza-Duran, Giuliano Pignata, Federico Battaini

Proceedings Volume 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX; 121847Y (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629632
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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FAST (Fully Automatic Spectrograph for Transients) is a low resolution spectrograph (R = 60 and 600 at 6500A) covering a wavelength range from 3800A up to 9200A and it includes an imaging mode. It is intended to be operated at the fully robotic telescope PROMPT-7 (CTIO, Chile) with the aim to obtain efficiently a first spectrum of transient events, without human intervention, in a few minutes after their discovery. The project has just started the manufacturing and procurement phases. In this work we present the final opto-mechanical layout of FAST and we describe its development status.

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Anna Brucalassi, Jose Antonio Araiza-Duran, Giuliano Pignata, and Federico Battaini "Progress on the development of FAST: the fully automatic spectrograph for the robotic telescope PROMPT-7", Proc. SPIE 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, 121847Y (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629632

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