VIRUS instrument collimator assembly

Jennifer L. Marshall; Darren L. DePoy; Travis Prochaska; Richard D. Allen; Patrick Williams; Jean-Philippe Rheault; Ting Li; Daniel Q. Nagasawa; Christopher Akers; David Baker; Emily Boster; Caitlin Campbell; Erika Cook; Alison Elder; Alex Gary; Joseph Glover; Michael James; Emily Martin; Will Meador; Nicholas Mondrik; Marisela Rodriguez-Patino; Steven Villanueva Jr.; Gary J. Hill; Sarah Tuttle; Brian Vattiat; Hanshin Lee; Taylor S. Chonis; Gavin B. Dalton; Mike Tacon

doi:10.1117/12.2056757

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8 July 2014 VIRUS instrument collimator assembly

Jennifer L. Marshall, Darren L. DePoy, Travis Prochaska, Richard D. Allen, Patrick Williams, Jean-Philippe Rheault, Ting Li, Daniel Q. Nagasawa, Christopher Akers, David Baker, Emily Boster, Caitlin Campbell, Erika Cook, Alison Elder, Alex Gary, Joseph Glover, Michael James, Emily Martin, Will Meador, Nicholas Mondrik, Marisela Rodriguez-Patino, Steven Villanueva Jr., Gary J. Hill, Sarah Tuttle, Brian Vattiat, Hanshin Lee, Taylor S. Chonis, Gavin B. Dalton, Mike Tacon

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Proceedings Volume 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V; 91473S (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056757
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The Visual Integral-Field Replicable Unit Spectrograph (VIRUS) instrument is a baseline array 150 identical fiber fed optical spectrographs designed to support observations for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). The collimator subassemblies of the instrument have been assembled in a production line and are now complete. Here we review the design choices and assembly practices used to produce a suite of identical low-cost spectrographs in a timely fashion using primarily unskilled labor.

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Jennifer L. Marshall, Darren L. DePoy, Travis Prochaska, Richard D. Allen, Patrick Williams, Jean-Philippe Rheault, Ting Li, Daniel Q. Nagasawa, Christopher Akers, David Baker, Emily Boster, Caitlin Campbell, Erika Cook, Alison Elder, Alex Gary, Joseph Glover, Michael James, Emily Martin, Will Meador, Nicholas Mondrik, Marisela Rodriguez-Patino, Steven Villanueva Jr., Gary J. Hill, Sarah Tuttle, Brian Vattiat, Hanshin Lee, Taylor S. Chonis, Gavin B. Dalton, and Mike Tacon "VIRUS instrument collimator assembly", Proc. SPIE 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, 91473S (8 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056757

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