Robotic fiber positioner (RFP) arrays are commonly adopted in multiobject spectroscopic
instruments. The positioning accuracy is a common but vital issue for RFP as inaccurate …

In this paper we present the Australian Astronomical Observatory's concept design for
Sphinx-a fiber positioner with 4,332 “spines” on a 7.77 mm pitch for CFHT's Mauna Kea …

The 4MOST consortium aims to provide the ESO community with a fibre-fed spectroscopic
survey facility on a 4m-class telescope with a large enough field-of-view (FoV) to survey a …

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 …

The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) project is an enterprise to upgrade the
existing Canada-France-Hawaii observatory into a spectroscopic facility based on a 10 …

Multiobject spectroscopy is applied in numerous modern astronomical facilities conducting
observations of a large number of targets per pointing. Assigning the maximum number of …

TOAD, the “Top Of the Atmosphere to Detector” simulator, is a primary engineering tool that
accompanies the development of the 4MOST instrument. The ultimate goal is to provide a …

Multi-object spectroscopy has become a valuable technique in numerous modern
astronomical facilities. Most spectrographs have thousands of fibre positioners packed at a …

The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is a massively multiplexed spectroscopic
survey facility that will replace the Canada–France–Hawai'i Telescope over the next two …

Context. Several new multi-object spectrographs are currently planned or under construction
that are capable of observing thousands of Galactic and extragalactic objects …