Lesedi HRS Project Wiki

This wiki is for construction of a high-resolution spectrograph on the 1-m Lesedi telescope in Sutherland. We anticipate future wikis for the user manual and for technical support.
The SAAO and Christian Schwab (Macquarie Univ. and AAO) are collaborating on the project.
The instrument is based on a design that Christian modified from NEID, an innovative HRS for use on the 3.5-m WIYN (https://neid.psu.edu/). We are hoping to reach a few m/sec accuracies for radial velocity measurements on Lesedi.

Project Team

Remote Expert & Collaborator: Christian Schwab (Macquarie U./AAO)

Instrument PI: Hannah Worters

Project Sponsor/Co-I: Amanda Sickafoose

Co-Is/Postdocs/Student: Nic Erasmus, others?

Local Expert Consultant: Lisa Crause

Mechanical Design:James O'Connor (oversight), Egan Loubser, Craig Sass

Software Engineers: Carel van Gend, Briehan Lombaard

Add notes from Christian's emails here
Detector notes and discussions
Rough purchasing list from Chris' visit 03/2018. He can likely supply the prism, collimator, and fiber injection:

   $35k  bench optics
   $55k Echelle grating
   $3k fiber injection optics
   $30k collimator/ADC/refocus mechanism