A new precise determination of the primordial abundance of deuterium: measurement in the metal-poor sub-DLA system at z = 3.42 towards quasar J 1332+0052

PA Kislitsyn, SA Balashev, MT Murphy… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The theory of Big Bang nucleosynthesis, coupled with an estimate of the
primordial deuterium abundance (D/H) pr, offers insights into the baryon density of the …

CUBES phase a design overview: The Cassegrain U-Band efficient spectrograph for the very large telescope

A Zanutta, S Cristiani, D Atkinson, V Baldini… - Experimental …, 2023 - Springer
We present the baseline conceptual design of the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient
Spectrograph (CUBES) for the Very Large Telescope. CUBES will provide unprecedented …

CUBES and its software ecosystem: instrument simulation, control, and data processing

G Calderone, R Cirami, G Cupani… - … for Astronomy VII, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
CUBES (Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph) is the recently approved high-efficiency
VLT spectrograph aimed to observe the sky in the UV ground-based region (305-400 nm) …

Active Flexure Compensation

L Bissell, W Seifert, AC Rosario, G Avila, BV Castilho… - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES) is a high efficiency ultra-violet (UV)
spectrograph (R> 20,000) for the Very Large Telescope (VLT). CUBES represents a way for …