Technical requirements flow-down for the concept design of the novel 50-meter Atacama Large Aperture Submm Telescope (AtLAST)
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| author | Reichert, Matthias Timpe, Martin Kaercher, Hans Mroczkowski, Tony Groh, Manuel Kiselev, Aleksej Cicone, Claudia Gallardo, Patricio A. Puddu, Roberto Klaassen, Pamela |
| author_facet | Reichert, Matthias Timpe, Martin Kaercher, Hans Mroczkowski, Tony Groh, Manuel Kiselev, Aleksej Cicone, Claudia Gallardo, Patricio A. Puddu, Roberto Klaassen, Pamela |
| contents | The Atacama Large Aperture Submm Telescope (AtLAST) is a concept for a novel 50-meter class single-dish telescope operating at sub-millimeter and millimeter wavelengths (30-950 GHz). The telescope will provide an unprecedentedly wide field of view (FoV) of 1-2 degree diameter with a large receiver cabin housing six major instruments in Nasmyth and Cassegrain positions. The high observing frequencies, combined with the scanning operation movements with up to 3 deg/second, place high demands on the accuracy and stability of the optical and structural components. The design features the introduction of a rocking chair type mount with an iso-statically decoupled main reflector backup structure and an active main reflector surface with a high precision metrology system. The planned site location is in the Chilean Atacama Desert at approximately 5050 meters above sea level, near Llano de Chajnantor. This paper gives an overview of the optical, structural, and mechanical design concepts. It explains the flow-down from key science requirements to technical design decisions as well as showing design analogies from other existing large radio, (sub-)mm, and optical telescopes. |
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| spellingShingle | Technical requirements flow-down for the concept design of the novel 50-meter Atacama Large Aperture Submm Telescope (AtLAST) Reichert, Matthias Timpe, Martin Kaercher, Hans Mroczkowski, Tony Groh, Manuel Kiselev, Aleksej Cicone, Claudia Gallardo, Patricio A. Puddu, Roberto Klaassen, Pamela Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics The Atacama Large Aperture Submm Telescope (AtLAST) is a concept for a novel 50-meter class single-dish telescope operating at sub-millimeter and millimeter wavelengths (30-950 GHz). The telescope will provide an unprecedentedly wide field of view (FoV) of 1-2 degree diameter with a large receiver cabin housing six major instruments in Nasmyth and Cassegrain positions. The high observing frequencies, combined with the scanning operation movements with up to 3 deg/second, place high demands on the accuracy and stability of the optical and structural components. The design features the introduction of a rocking chair type mount with an iso-statically decoupled main reflector backup structure and an active main reflector surface with a high precision metrology system. The planned site location is in the Chilean Atacama Desert at approximately 5050 meters above sea level, near Llano de Chajnantor. This paper gives an overview of the optical, structural, and mechanical design concepts. It explains the flow-down from key science requirements to technical design decisions as well as showing design analogies from other existing large radio, (sub-)mm, and optical telescopes. |
| title | Technical requirements flow-down for the concept design of the novel 50-meter Atacama Large Aperture Submm Telescope (AtLAST) |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08611 |