Bibcode
Izazaga, Rafael; Carrasco, Esperanza; Hidalgo, Andrea; Dalton, Gavin; Trager, Scott; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Bonifacio, Piercarlo; Vallenari, Antonella; Abrams, Don Carlos; Middleton, Kevin
Referencia bibliográfica
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10706, id. 107060J 17 pp. (2018).
Fecha de publicación:
7
2018
Número de citas
2
Número de citas referidas
0
Descripción
WEAVE is the new wide field multi-object and integral field survey
facility for the prime focus of the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope. It
is located at the Observatorio Roque de los Muchachos, in La Palma,
Canary Islands, Spain. WEAVE fiber-fed spectrograph offers two
resolutions, R 5000 and 20,000. It has a collimator mirror and two
cameras optimized for the wavelength intervals of 366 - 959 nm and 579 -
959 nm, respectively. One of the responsibilities of INAOE within the
WEAVE collaboration is the polishing of the collimator mirror, made of
OHARA CLEARCERAM®- Z HS. The collimator has a diameter of 660 mm, a
central thickness of 44.7 mm and a weight of 56.8 kg. The main
specifications are: 2 fringes irregularity in a clear aperture of 624 mm
diameter and a radius of curvature of 1224.65 mm +/- 0.15. In this work,
we present the polishing process and final results for the collimator.
In particular, we describe the tools developed for its manufacturing,
the modifications carried out to the conventional polishing machine to
support the glass. Additionally, the interferometric optical
irregularity measurements are presented. The collimator polishing
process is finished fulfilling all the optical specifications.