The commissioning instrument for the Gran Telescopio Canarias: Made in Mexico

Salvador Cuevas; Beatriz Sánchez; Vicente Bringas; Carlos Espejo; Rubén Flores; Oscar Chapa; Gerardo Lara; Armando Chavoya; Gustavo Anguiano; Sadot Arciniega; Ariel Dorantes; José Luis Gonzalez; Juan Manuel Montoya; Rafael Toral; Hugo Hernández; Roberto Nava; Nicolas Devaney; Javier Castro; Luis Cavaller; Alejandro Farah; Javier Godoy; Francisco Cobos; Carlos Tejada; Fernando Garfias

doi:10.1117/12.674622

The commissioning instrument for the Gran Telescopio Canarias: Made in Mexico

Salvador Cuevas
, Beatriz Sánchez
, Vicente Bringas
, Carlos Espejo
, Rubén Flores
, Oscar Chapa
, Gerardo Lara
, Armando Chavoya
, Gustavo Anguiano
, Sadot Arciniega
, Ariel Dorantes
, José Luis Gonzalez
, Juan Manuel Montoya
, Rafael Toral
, Hugo Hernández
, Roberto Nava
, Nicolas Devaney
, Javier Castro
, Luis Cavaller
, Alejandro Farah

Javier Godoy, Francisco Cobos, Carlos Tejada, Fernando Garfias

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Abstract

In March 2004 was accepted in the site of Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) in La Palma Island, Spain, the Commissioning Instrument (CI) for the GTC. During the GTC integration phase, the CI will be a diagnostic tool for performance verification. The CI features four operation modes - imaging, pupil imaging, Curvature Wave-front sensing (WFS), and high resolution Shack-Hartmann WFS. This instrument was built by the Instituto de Astronomía UNAM in México City and the Centro de Ingeniería y Desarrollo Industrial (CIDESI) in Querétaro, Qro under a GRANTECAN contract after an international public bid. Some optical components were built by Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica (CIO) in León Gto and the biggest mechanical parts were manufactured by Vatech in Morelia Mich. In this paper we made a general description of the CI and we relate how this instrument, build under international standards, was entirely made in Mexico.

Original language	English
Article number	604628
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	6046
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.674622
Publication status	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes
Event	Fifth Symposium Optics in Industry - Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico Duration: 8 Sep 2005 → 9 Sep 2005

Keywords

Astronomical Instrumentation
Opto-Mechanics
Telescope Commissioning

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Cuevas, S., Sánchez, B., Bringas, V., Espejo, C., Flores, R., Chapa, O., Lara, G., Chavoya, A., Anguiano, G., Arciniega, S., Dorantes, A., Gonzalez, J. L., Montoya, J. M., Toral, R., Hernández, H., Nava, R., Devaney, N., Castro, J., Cavaller, L., ... Garfias, F. (2006). The commissioning instrument for the Gran Telescopio Canarias: Made in Mexico. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 6046, Article 604628. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.674622

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