CUBES: mechanical design and analysis for high-resolution UV spectroscopy on the VLT
We present the mechanical design and analysis of CUBES (Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph), a near- UV spectrograph for the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT). First, we describe the challenges and key concepts of the mechanical design. Then we report on the finite element analysis (FEA) covering modal and seismic a...