Mechanical design and integration of the support structure for the Reionization And Transients InfRared Instrument RATIR

Alejandro Farah; J. Jesús González; Alexander S. Kutyrev; Gennadiy Lotkin; Alan M. Watson; Nathaniel R. Butler; William H. Lee; Michael G. Richer; Eduardo López; David Clark; Gerald Cabak; Ori D. Fox; David A. Rapchun; Carlos Román-Zúñiga; Leonid Georgiev

doi:10.1117/12.927040

24 September 2012 Mechanical design and integration of the support structure for the Reionization And Transients InfRared Instrument RATIR

Alejandro Farah, J. Jesús González, Alexander S. Kutyrev, Gennadiy Lotkin, Alan M. Watson, Nathaniel R. Butler, William H. Lee, Michael G. Richer, Eduardo López, David Clark, Gerald Cabak, Ori D. Fox, David A. Rapchun, Carlos Román-Zúñiga, Leonid Georgiev

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Proceedings Volume 8446, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV; 84469O (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.927040
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

In this article we present the mechanical design and the manufacturing of the support structure for the Reionization And Transients InfraRed (RATIR) camera. The instrument is mounted at the f/13 Cassegrain focus of the 1.5-meter Harold Johnson telescope of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional at San Pedro Mártir (OAN/SPM) in Mexico. We describe the high-level requirements and explain their translation to the mechanical specifications and requirements. We describe the structural finite-element analysis and the boundary conditions, loads, and general assumptions included in the simulations. We summarize the expected displacements, rotations and stresses. We present the optomechanical components and the elements used to attach the instrument to the telescope. Finally, we show the instrument installed on the telescope.

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Alejandro Farah, J. Jesús González, Alexander S. Kutyrev, Gennadiy Lotkin, Alan M. Watson, Nathaniel R. Butler, William H. Lee, Michael G. Richer, Eduardo López, David Clark, Gerald Cabak, Ori D. Fox, David A. Rapchun, Carlos Román-Zúñiga, and Leonid Georgiev "Mechanical design and integration of the support structure for the Reionization And Transients InfRared Instrument RATIR", Proc. SPIE 8446, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, 84469O (24 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.927040

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