NOVA MAX: manufacturing and assembly facility for ELT-era instrumentation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Moving into the era of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELT), the size and complexity of the instruments increased significantly while constraints and requirements remain tight. NOVA follows a monolithic design strategy, meaning that the size of individual components scales with the size of the instrument. To enable the manufacturing and assembly of the largest components at the required precision, NOVA has invested in a new facility for ELT-era instrumentation: NOVA Manufacturing and Assembly of eXtreme instrumentation (MAX). Here we introduce the capabilities of NOVA MAX, which includes a 5-axis CNC milling machine and a Coordinate-Measuring Machine (CMM) in a temperature-stabilized environment. The CMM is located in a cleanroom with temperature variations < 0.5K/24 hours, enabling micron-level verification and fine-tuning during assembly. This unique assembly facility is crucial when producing large size one-off instruments. We report on, amongst others, the tolerances, dimensions, and loads that can be achieved with both machines and present the first components that have been manufactured for the METIS and MICADO ELT instruments.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
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Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".