Publications by Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira

WST - Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope: addressing the instrumentation challenges of a new 12m class telescope dedicated to widefield Multi-object and Integral Field Spectroscopy

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira

WST - Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope: We summarise the design challenges of instrumentation for a proposed 12m class Telescope that aims to provide a large (>2.5 square degree) field of view and enable simultaneous Multi-object (> 20,000 objects) and In ...

SPIE2024

The Blue Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (BlueMUSE) on the VLT: science drivers and overview of instrument design

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira

BlueMUSE is a blue-optimised, medium spectral resolution, panoramic integral field spectrograph under development for the Very Large Telescope (VLT).With an optimised transmission down to 350 nm, spectral resolution of R∼3500 on average across the waveleng ...

SPIE2024

MegaMapper: Concept and Optical Design for a 6.5 m Aperture Massively Multiplexed Spectroscopic Facility

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Mohamed Bouri, Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira

MegaMapper is a 6.5m Magellan-like telescope fitted with a wide-field-corrector (WFC) and atmospheric-dispersion-corrector (ADC) that delivers a 3. diameter corrected field-of-view. The telescope's focal surface is populated by similar to 25, 000 robotic f ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

SDSS-V Algorithms: Fast, Collision-free Trajectory Planning for Heavily Overlapping Robotic Fiber Positioners

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Mohamed Bouri, Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira, Luzius Gregor Kronig, Loïc Grossen

Robotic fiber positioner (RFP) arrays are becoming heavily adopted in wide-field massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey instruments. RFP arrays decrease nightly operational overheads through rapid reconfiguration between fields and exposures. In compar ...

2021

The Industrialization of Astronomical Instrumentation: An Industrial Systems and Process Engineering Perspective

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Mohamed Bouri, Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira, Luzius Gregor Kronig, Loïc Grossen

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) is an all-sky spectroscopic survey of > 6 million objects, designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, reveal the inner workings of stars, investigate the origin of solar systems, and track the growth of superma ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2020

Precision control of miniature SCARA robots for multi-object spectrographs

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Mohamed Bouri, Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira, Luzius Gregor Kronig, Loïc Grossen

Advances in astronomy led to the demand for measuring the spectra of multiple night sky objects simultaneously. Some of these Multi-Object Spectrographs use robotic systems that position optical fibers in the focal plane of the observing telescope. These s ...

2020

Optical test procedure for characterization and calibration of robotic fiber positioners for multiobject spectrographs

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Mohamed Bouri, Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira, Luzius Gregor Kronig, Philipp Hörler, Loïc Grossen

The recent burgeoning interest in massive multiobject spectroscopy has pushed the development of massive optical fiber positioning systems. These systems rely on precise fiber placement to detect the light spectra of many stars and galaxies. One successful ...

2020

Experimental evaluation of complete safe coordination of astrobots for Sloan Digital Sky Survey V

Denis Gillet, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Mohamed Bouri, Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira, Matin Macktoobian, Luzius Gregor Kronig, Loïc Grossen

The data throughput of massive spectroscopic surveys in the course of each observation is directly coordinated with the number of optical fibers which reach their target. In this paper, we evaluate the safety and the performance of the astrobots coordinati ...

2020

Multi-object spectroscopic operations with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V

Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira, Luzius Gregor Kronig, Loïc Grossen

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) is an all-sky spectroscopic survey of more than 6 million objects, designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, reveal the inner workings of stars, investigate the origin of solar systems, and track the growth of ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2020