Optical fiber link between OzPoz, GIRAFFE, and UVES (FLAMES project)

Gerardo Avila (1) , Isabelle Guinouard (2) , Laurent Jocou (3) , Fabien Guillon (2) , Fabrice Balsamo (4)

1 European Southern Observatory, Germany
2 Observatoire de Paris
3 LAB - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac]
4 School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen

The FLAMES project is the VLT Fibre Facility. It includes the fibre positioner OzPoz linking the GIRAFFE and UVES spectrographs. FLAMES is located on the Nasmyth Platform A of the Kueyen VLT telescope. The optical fibre link is arranged in four bundles: the Medusa system with 132 single fibres for multi-object spectroscopy, 15 deployable IFU modules for integral field spectroscopy of small objects, the Argus large integral field unit with two possible samplings and a bundle of 8 fibres and 55 m long linking OzPoz to UVES, a high resolution spectrograph situated on the opposite Nasmyth platform. This paper describes the final characteristics and performances of all the fibre bundles and the status at their installation at the telescope.

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]

Gerardo Avila, Isabelle Guinouard, Laurent Jocou, Fabien Guillon, Fabrice Balsamo. Optical fiber link between OzPoz, GIRAFFE, and UVES (FLAMES project). Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes, Aug 2002, Waikoloa, Hawaii, United States. pp.997-1005, ⟨10.1117/12.461941⟩. ⟨hal-03724438⟩