Opto-mechanical design of the Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) fly's eye camera

Erik Hinrichsen; Mark Egan; Nathan P. Lourie; Danielle Frostig; Gábor Fűrész; Robert A. Simcoe; Andrew Malonis

doi:10.1117/12.2562912

13 December 2020 Opto-mechanical design of the Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) fly's eye camera

Erik Hinrichsen, Mark Egan, Nathan P. Lourie, Danielle Frostig, Gábor Fűrész, Robert A. Simcoe, Andrew Malonis

Proceedings Volume 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII; 114479F (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562912
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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The Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a new infrared time-domain survey instrument on a dedicated 1 meter robotic telescope at the Palomar Observatory. WINTER will perform the first seeing-limited time domain survey of the infrared (IR) sky, with a particular emphasis on identifying r-process material in binary neutron star (BNS) merger remnants detected by LIGO. We have developed and tested a custom opto-mechanical mounting scheme for a 6-channel tiled optical system with <90% fill factor. Here, we present the mechanical design and testing approach used in the development of WINTER.

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Erik Hinrichsen, Mark Egan, Nathan P. Lourie, Danielle Frostig, Gábor Fűrész, Robert A. Simcoe, and Andrew Malonis "Opto-mechanical design of the Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) fly's eye camera", Proc. SPIE 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, 114479F (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562912

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