Manufacturing process for the WEAVE Prime Focus Corrector optics for the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope

In this paper, we detail the manufacturing process for the lenses that will constitute the new two-degree field-of-view Prime Focus Corrector (PFC) for the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope (WHT) optimised for the upcoming WEAVE Multi-Object Spectroscopy (MOS) facility. The corrector, including an Atm...

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Main Authors: Lhomé, E, Agócs, T, Abrams, D, Dee, K, Middleton, K, Tosh, I, Jaskó, A, Connor, P, Cochrane, D, Gers, L, Jonas, G, Rakich, A, Dalton, G, Benn, C, Balcells, M, Trager, S, Carrasco, E, Vallenari, A, Bonifacio, P, Aguerri, J
Format: Conference item
Published: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers 2016