2dF: the AAT's planned wide-field multifiber spectroscopic survey facility: report on commissioning the 2dF corrector/ADC

Keith Taylor; Peter M. Gray

doi:10.1117/12.176797

1 June 1994 2dF: the AAT's planned wide-field multifiber spectroscopic survey facility: report on commissioning the 2dF corrector/ADC

Keith Taylor, Peter M. Gray

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Proceedings Volume 2198, Instrumentation in Astronomy VIII; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.176797
Event: 1994 Symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation for the 21st Century, 1994, Kailua, Kona, HI, United States

Abstract

The Anglo-Australian Telescope has just received a new prime- focus corrector, designed by Damien Jones (Prime Optics, Qld., Australia) and manufactured by Contraves, USA. The corrector is capable of producing aberration-corrected images over a full 2 degree diameter field of view. It is a 4-element design, the first two elements being rotatable cemented prismatic doublets approaching 1.0 m in diameter, which permit full atmospheric dispersion compensation to high zenith distances. The corrector is at the heart of a new powerful 400-fiber spectroscopic survey facility known as the 2dF. This A$2.3M project represents the largest investment in new technology and instrumentation the AAT has seen in its 20 year lifetime and will provide the telescope with a new and important role for large-scale statistical studies in the latter half of the decade and beyond. This paper will present the performance specifications for the corrector comparing them to the results of the recently complete telescope commissioning test.

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Keith Taylor and Peter M. Gray "2dF: the AAT's planned wide-field multifiber spectroscopic survey facility: report on commissioning the 2dF corrector/ADC", Proc. SPIE 2198, Instrumentation in Astronomy VIII, (1 June 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.176797

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