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TAIPAN

(multi-object spectrograph with robot fiber-positioner)

TAIPAN is a multi-object spectrograph with a robotic fiber positioner for 150 fibers, on the UK Schmidt Telescope, aimed at automated surveying of stellar and galaxy spectrography. It began science operations in 2017. Surveys:

Its fiber positioner, which uses mechanisms called StarBugs, is a prototype for the future Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) fiber positioner, MANIFEST.


(instrument,spectrograph,Australia)
Further reading:
https://astralis.org.au/projects/taipan/
http://www.ing.iac.es/conferences/mos/PDF/Taipan_AMH.pdf
https://aat.anu.edu.au/technology/new-instruments/taipan
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017PASA...34...47D/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014SPIE.9151E..1AB/abstract

Referenced by pages:
fiber positioner
UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST)

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