Mr. Thibaut Crauchet Profile

Thibaut Crauchet

at Lab d'Astrophysique de Marseille

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Publications (7)

Proceedings Article | 19 July 2024 Presentation

Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for Subaru Telescope: progressing final steps to science operation

Naoyuki Tamura, Yuki Moritani, Kiyoto Yabe, Yuki Ishizuka, Yukiko Kamata, Ali Allaoui, Akira Arai, Stéphane Arnouts, Robert Barkhouser, Rudy Barette, Eddie Bergeron, Patrick Blanchard, Neven Caplar, Michael Carle, Pierre-Yves Chabaud, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Chueh-Yi Chou, Judith Cohen, Ricardo da Costa, Thibaut Crauchet, Rodorigo de Almeida, Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Ligia de Oliveira, Kjetil Dohlen, Leandro Henrique dos Santos, Richard Ellis, Steve Ertel, Maximilian Fabricius, Décio Ferreira, Hisanori Furusawa, Javier Garciá-Carpio, Wilfred Gee, Mirek Golebiowski, Aidan Gray, James Gunn, Satoshi Hamano, Randolph Hammond, Albert Harding, Kota Hayashi, Wanqiu He, Timothy Heckman, Stephen Hope, Shu-Fu Hsu, Pin-Jie Huang, Miho Ishigaki, Marc Jaquet, Eric Jeschke, Christian Kragh Jespersen, Yipeng Jeng, Russell Kackley, Jennifer Karr, Satoshi Kawanomoto, Masahiko Kimura, Michitaro Koike, Eiichiro Komatsu, Shintaro Koshida, Yusei Koyama, Vincent Le Brun, Arnaud Le Fur, David Le Mignant, Gerald Lemson, Yen-Ting Lin, Hung-Hsu Ling, Craig Loomis, Robert Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Danilo Marchesini, Lucas Marrara, Dmitry Medvedev, Sogo Mineo, Arik Mitschang, Satoshi Miyazaki, Kumiko Morihana, Takahiro Morishima, Hitoshi Murayama, Graham Murray, Ssakurako Okamoto, Hirofumi Okita, Masato Onodera, Josh Peebles, Paul Price, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lucio Ramos, Daniel Reiley, Martin Reinecke, Mitsuko Roberts, Josemar Rosa, Julien Rousselle, Kody Rubio, Kiaina Schubert, Michael Seiffert, Jared Siegel, Stephen Smee, Laerte Sodré, Michael Strauss, Christian Surace, Masahiro Takada, Yuhei Takagi, Masayuki Tanaka, Yoko Tanaka, Aniruddha Thakar, Didier Vibert, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chih-Yi Wen, Suzanne Werner, Matthew Wung, Chi-Hung Yan, Naoki Yasuda, Hiroshige Yoshida

Proceedings Volume 13096, 1309605 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3015967

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Poster + Paper

Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for Subaru Telescope: spectrograph system final integration and performance at LAM and Subaru

Fabrice Madec, David Le Mignant, Kjetil Dohlen, Rudy Barette, Patrick Blanchard, Jean-Antoine Benedetti, Michael Carle, Thibaut Crauchet, Romain Lhoussaine, Patrick Vors, Marc Jaquet, Naoyuki Tamura, Yuki Moritani, Josh Peebles, Julien Rousselle, Arnaud Le Fur, Craig Loomis, Shintaro Koshida, Vincent Lapere, Marc Dierickx, Emilien Hupel, James Gunn, Mirek Golebiowski, Randolph Hammond, Stephen Hope, Stephen Smee, Robert Barkhouser, Aidan Gray, Paul Price, Robert Lupton, Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Ligia Souza de Oliveira, Graham Murray, Stéphanie Chatelain, Jean-Baptiste Abele

Proceedings Volume 13096, 130962P (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019805

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Spectrographs, Sensors, Telescopes, Transportation, Optical components, Near infrared, Diffusion, Spectral resolution, Integration, Testing and analysis

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The Spectrograph System (SpS) of Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph is fed by 2400 fibers and consists of four identical spectrograph modules with 4 arms and 600 fibers each. This paper outlines the overall integration process for the spectrograph module series as completed at the Subaru Telescope. Many partners from the Subaru PFS Collaboration and industry contributed to this large multi-object spectrograph system. The initial integration of the so-called "one-channel prototype" began in 2015. The first spectrograph module was delivered to Subaru in 2019, and the fourth module was delivered in late 2023, with delays due to both technical difficulties and scheduling challenges, including the impact of COVID-19 on the large PFS spectrograph system collaboration. The integration and validation of each spectrograph module were performed at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) prior to delivery and full integration at the Subaru Telescope. First, we briefly review the opto-mechanical design and development strategy for the SpS. We present the integration and testing procedures developed for this mini-series of four spectrograph modules. Several specific AIT tools were innovative and key to the process, and are worth reporting, including the software tools required for functional tests, housekeeping, and environment monitoring during integration, analysis of dimensional metrology, test and verification of optical alignment, and overall performance assessment. Specific processes were also developed for analyzing and resolving anomalies and issues encountered. We detail the strategies developed to resolve technical issues: thermal and vacuum performance; dimensional and optical metrology processes to correct for focus/tilt anomalies observed at the focal plane; handling, alignment, and optical testing of large optics such as the 340x340x20mm Volume Phase Holographic Grating (VPHG). We briefly report on a grating orientation issue discovered before the delivery of the last module, which is reported elsewhere. We quickly report the integration logistics: managing the shipping process, custom, and deliveries of many parts and modules among partners since 2014, and the final delivery and installation at the Subaru Telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawai`i in 2019, 2022, and 2023. We then dedicate a full section to the optical and thermal performance for the largest 8m-class multi-object spectrograph: the spectral channels and camera alignment performance results and the detailed optical performance of the four spectrograph modules (extracted from internal extended performance reports).

Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Poster + Paper

Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for Subaru Telescope: integration and test of the last spectrograph modules

Julien Rousselle, Yuki Moritani, Fabrice Madec, Patrick Blanchard, David Le Mignant, Michael Carle, Thibaut Crauchet, Rudy Barette, Shintaro Koshida, Matthew Wung, Kumiko Morihana, Arnaud Le Fur, Craig Loomis, Naoyuki Tamura

Proceedings Volume 13096, 130962L (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020408

KEYWORDS: System integration, Temperature control, Cameras, Spectrographs, Near infrared, Telescopes, Vacuum

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Proceedings Article | 16 September 2023 Open Access

HARMONI at ELT: prototyping for Single-Conjugate AO Sensor subsystem (Erratum)

K. El Hadi, J. Sauvage, K. Dohlen, E. Renault, W. Bon, P. Vola, T. Crauchet, L. Gemmerlé, F. Madec, D. Le Mignant, B. Neichel, T. Fusco, F. Clarke, D. Melotte, M. Tecza, N. Thatte, J. Amiaux, J. Paufique

Proceedings Volume 12185, 121858S (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3011313

KEYWORDS: Adaptive optics, Sensors, Prototyping, Observatories, Observational astronomy, Electroluminescence, Astronomical telescopes

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