MAAT Gallery
MAAT@GTC Workshop, 5 May 2020
GTC-MAAT kick-off meeting on the OSIRIS Mask Loader upgrade & OSIRIS+MAAT Optics held at the GTC telescope on May 17-28. Participants (from left to right): Sergio Fernández (Instrumentation Head, GTC), Kilian Henríquez (Mechanical Engineer, GTC), Gaizka Mendieta (Project Manager, IDOM), Rubén Sanquirce (Mechanical Engineer, IDOM), Gabriel Gómez (Support Astronomer, GTC), Alexander Díaz (Mechanical Engineer, IDOM), Manuela Abril (Instrument Specialist & PM for MAAT, GTC) & Robert Content (Optical Scientist, AAO-MQ). Picture taken by Francisco Prada (MAAT) at the GTC Control Room. IDOM is a Spanish company hired by MAAT to implement the upgrade of the OSIRIS Mask Loader. Robert Content is our MAAT optical designer.
We am pleased to share an update on the MAAT Integral Field Unit (IFU) instrument we are developing for the OSIRIS spectrograph at the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias on La Palma. The production and assembly of the slicer mirrors have been completed. The slicer stack, comprising 23 slices each 0.8 mm thick and made of glass fused silica, is now ready for the next phase: coating. All other optical elements of the IFU have already been manufactured. Below, you can see a photo of the slicer stack. Next to it, there is an image of a 3D printed model of the MAAT IFU, which was displayed at the Bertin Winlight stand during the SPIE conference in Yokohama, Japan, this June.