Bibcode
Agócs, T.; Abrams, Don Carlos; Lhomé, Emilie; Dee, Kevin; Dalton, Gavin; Middleton, Kevin; Bonifacio, Piercarlo; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Trager, S. C.
Bibliographical reference
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9147, id. 914773 14 pp. (2014).
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2014
Citations
5
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1
Description
WEAVE is the next-generation wide-field optical spectroscopy facility
for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in La Palma, Canary Islands,
Spain. We present the final optical design for the two-degree Prime
Focus Corrector (PFC) for the WHT optimised for WEAVE. The nominal
optical design provides a polychromatic PSF that does not exceed 0.6
arcsec (80% encircled energy diameter) over a wavelength range from 370
to 1000 nm covering a two-degree field-of-view (FOV) for zenith angles
up to 65 degrees. We describe the optical issues that had to be
addressed prior to the Final Design Review (FDR) and present the
trade-offs that were necessary between manufacturability and
performance. We detail the results of an in-depth Monte Carlo simulation
that contains all the manufacturing, alignment and stability issues that
affect the PSF error budget of the Prime Focus Corrector. As a result of
multiple iterations regarding the different tolerances of the system,
the polychromatic PSF (80% encircled energy diameter) including all
errors stays below the required 1 arcsec.