@inproceedings{e1eb5914fe074c8e86e6109ef78795bc,
title = "2dF grows up: Echidna for the AAT",
abstract = "We present the concept design of a new fibre positioner and spectrograph system for the Anglo-Australian Telescope, as a proposed enhancement to the Anglo-Australian Observatory's well-known 2dF facility. A four-fold multiplex enhancement is accomplished by replacing the 400-fibre 2dF fibre positioning robot with a 1600-fibre Echidna unit, feeding three clones of the AAOmega optical spectrograph. Such a facility has the capability of a redshift 1 survey of a large fraction of the southern sky, collecting five to ten thousand spectra per night for a million-galaxy survey.",
keywords = "2dF, AAT, Multiobject spectroscopy, Redshift survey",
author = "Andrew McGrath and Sam Barden and Stan Miziarski and William Rambold and Greg Smith",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1117/12.788605",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780819472243",
volume = "7014",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "McLean, {Ian S.} and Casali, {Mark M.}",
booktitle = "Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II",
note = "SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation : Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II ; Conference date: 23-06-2008 Through 28-06-2008",
}