Bibcode
Espejo, Carlos; Cuevas, Salvador; Sanchez, Beatriz; Flores, Ruben; Lara, Gerardo; Farah, Alejandro; Godoy, Javier; Bringas, Vicente; Chavoya, Armando; Dorantes, Ariel; Manuel Montoya, Juan; Rangel, Juan Carlos; Devaney, Nicholas; Castro, Javier; Cavaller, Luis
Referencia bibliográfica
Large Ground-based Telescopes. Edited by Oschmann, Jacobus M.; Stepp, Larry M. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4837, pp. 749-757 (2003).
Fecha de publicación:
2
2003
Número de citas
1
Número de citas referidas
0
Descripción
Under a contract with the GRANTECAN, the Commissioning Instrument is a
project developed by a team of Mexican scientists and engineers from the
Instrumentation Department of the Astronomy Institute at the UNAM and
the CIDESI Engineering Center. This paper will discuss in some detail
the final Commissioning Instrument (CI) mechanical design and
fabrication. We will also explain the error budget and the barrels
design as well as their thermal compensation. The optical design and the
control system are discussed in other papers. The CI will just act as a
diagnostic tool for image quality verification during the GTC
Commissioning Phase. This phase is a quality control process for
achieving, verifying, and documenting the performance of each GTC
sub-systems. This is a very important step for the telescope life. It
will begin on starting day and will last for a year. The CI project
started in December 2000. The critical design phase was reviewed in July
2001. The CI manufacturing is currently in progress and most parts are
finished. We are now approaching the factory acceptance stage.