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- ESPRESSO First light
- News from integration – End of year 2016
- News from integration – weeks 40 to 42/2016
- News from integration – weeks 34 to 36/2016
- News from integration – weeks 37 to 39/2016
- News from integration â weeks 33 and 34/2016
- The main collimator at IAC
- Blue camera progresses
- News from integration – week 32/2016
- News from integration – week 31/2016
Category Archives: Non classé
News from integration – End of year 2016
Hereafter are a few lines describing very shortly the main activities held in relationship with the integration of ESPRESSO in Geneva. It has not the goal of describe the activities in detail, but merely to keep track of a few … Continue reading
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News from integration – weeks 34 to 36/2016
Attendees: Benjamin Reich Ian Hughes Denis Mégevand external company Samuel Santana Marco Landoni Roberto Cirami Francesco Pepe On week 34, the bench was prepared for the intervention of external scrapping specialists to correct the bad planarity of the cameras interfaces … Continue reading
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MR263 grating delivered to Garching
The three replicas of the new (MR263) echelle grating were delivered at ESO, including test data. One segment was sent to the Fraunhofer institute in Jena to measure S and P efficiency at five laser wavelengths (375, 416, 532, 630, … Continue reading
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ESPRESSO first laboratory light
Dear ESPRESSO friends, This post is âjustâ to share with you a fantastic moment in the ESPRESSO project, occurred on June 3rd, 2016. It may sound surprising, but itâs true: We just had first laboratory light with ESPRESSO. The whole … Continue reading
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Blue arm optics started integration
The first optical elements of the blue arm have been integrated in Geneva from May 25 to May 27, by Marco Riva, Ian Hughes, Giorgio Pariani and Matteo Aliverti. This concerns the dichroic mirror (DC), the field lens (FL) and … Continue reading
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MR160 Echelle grating in Geneva
The Echelle grating was received in Geneva on May 19th. The integration will be done on June 2-3.
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Feedthrough terminated
The feedthrough foreseen to pass the cables from the Laser Frequency Comb (LFC) room and the Combined Coudé Laboratory (CCL) has been terminated properly by Paranal contratists. This work closed another change request  (CRE) made by the ESPRESSO project to … Continue reading
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