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Prime focus wide-field corrector designs with lossless atmospheric dispersion correction

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2015-06-22 v1

Abstract

Wide-Field Corrector designs are presented for the Blanco and Mayall telescopes, the CFHT and the AAT. The designs are Terezibh-style, with 5 or 6 lenses, and modest negative optical power. They have 2.2-3 degree fields of view, with curved and telecentric focal surfaces suitable for fiber spectroscopy. Some variants also allow wide-field imaging, by changing the last WFC element. Apart from the adaptation of the Terebizh design for spectroscopy, the key feature is a new concept for a 'Compensating Lateral Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector', with two of the lenses being movable laterally by small amounts. This provides excellent atmospheric dispersion correction, without any additional surfaces or absorption. A novel and simple mechanism for providing the required lens motions is proposed, which requires just 3 linear actuators for each of the two moving lenses.

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@article{arxiv.1406.4168,
  title  = {Prime focus wide-field corrector designs with lossless atmospheric dispersion correction},
  author = {Will Saunders and Peter Gillingham and Greg Smith and Steve Kent and Peter Doel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.4168},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10pp SPIE 9151-56 (2014)