Regular Meeting Minutes 03-02-16
... i. Lindsay Kretchmana. Election Committee must get together weekly in order to get things working. Consider better advertisement for the event. Use it to get candidates to apply. b. Thanks Senator Hinch for running the Diversity Day Event. Reminds people that when signing up for an event it is impor ...
... i. Lindsay Kretchmana. Election Committee must get together weekly in order to get things working. Consider better advertisement for the event. Use it to get candidates to apply. b. Thanks Senator Hinch for running the Diversity Day Event. Reminds people that when signing up for an event it is impor ...
2014 - Society for Astronomical Sciences
... relative to each other. Their method relies on observations made in multiple filers with each telescope/camera combination for which standard photometric transformations have been previously determined (Munari & Morretti, 2012). They have successfully applied their method with good results to lightc ...
... relative to each other. Their method relies on observations made in multiple filers with each telescope/camera combination for which standard photometric transformations have been previously determined (Munari & Morretti, 2012). They have successfully applied their method with good results to lightc ...
The Status of Fermilab`s Test Beam Facility
... The MTest facility continues to support a large variety of advanced detector tests The beamline is quite versatile, delivering secondary beams from 1 to 64 GeV, and a primary beam of 120 GeV protons. Electrons are dominant at low energies. Muons can be selected for with a beam stop. A new tertiary b ...
... The MTest facility continues to support a large variety of advanced detector tests The beamline is quite versatile, delivering secondary beams from 1 to 64 GeV, and a primary beam of 120 GeV protons. Electrons are dominant at low energies. Muons can be selected for with a beam stop. A new tertiary b ...
evolution of the foucault-secretan reflecting telescope
... diameters he moved from spherical to paraboloidal mirrors and developed tests to determine the errors of the surfaces he was polishing, of which the knife-edge test is the most informative and sensitive. The errors were then corrected with retouches locales, i.e. local repolishing. He also introduce ...
... diameters he moved from spherical to paraboloidal mirrors and developed tests to determine the errors of the surfaces he was polishing, of which the knife-edge test is the most informative and sensitive. The errors were then corrected with retouches locales, i.e. local repolishing. He also introduce ...
sdss-fnal - Sloan Digital Sky Survey
... The next generation of astronomical archives with Terabyte catalogs will dramatically change astronomy top-down design large sky coverage built on sound statistical plans uniform, homogeneous, well calibrated well controlled and documented systematics ...
... The next generation of astronomical archives with Terabyte catalogs will dramatically change astronomy top-down design large sky coverage built on sound statistical plans uniform, homogeneous, well calibrated well controlled and documented systematics ...
Diffraction-limited astronomical X-ray imaging and X
... substrates (having ~1 µm spherical departure) as large as 20 – 25 cm in diameter. The spatial resolution of a diffractionlimited imaging system is proportional to λ/NA, where NA is the system numerical aperture; at present, multiplereflection EUVL imaging systems using large-diameter multilayer mirr ...
... substrates (having ~1 µm spherical departure) as large as 20 – 25 cm in diameter. The spatial resolution of a diffractionlimited imaging system is proportional to λ/NA, where NA is the system numerical aperture; at present, multiplereflection EUVL imaging systems using large-diameter multilayer mirr ...
Starlight Xpress Ltd
... Whichever device you use, it is necessary to set up a good optical match between your MX7 and the telescope. Most SCTs have a focal ratio of around F10, which is too high for most deep sky objects and too low for the planets! This problem is quite easy to overcome, if you have access to a telecompre ...
... Whichever device you use, it is necessary to set up a good optical match between your MX7 and the telescope. Most SCTs have a focal ratio of around F10, which is too high for most deep sky objects and too low for the planets! This problem is quite easy to overcome, if you have access to a telecompre ...
Technology development report
... Given the history of the project it is difficult to predict when the full changeover can occur without having information from tests with three antennas. Our current best estimate is October 2008. ...
... Given the history of the project it is difficult to predict when the full changeover can occur without having information from tests with three antennas. Our current best estimate is October 2008. ...
surface composition of mercury - The University of Arizona Press
... the scaled solar analogue star to the theoretical Sun is approximately 1.O, then the second step in Eq. (4) can be eliminated, i.e., Mercurytsolar analogue star sufficiently represents MercurytSun. A reduction in the calculation steps should eliminate one source of calculated uncertainty. Various ob ...
... the scaled solar analogue star to the theoretical Sun is approximately 1.O, then the second step in Eq. (4) can be eliminated, i.e., Mercurytsolar analogue star sufficiently represents MercurytSun. A reduction in the calculation steps should eliminate one source of calculated uncertainty. Various ob ...
slides ppt
... Virgo commissioning – full power recycled ITF Feb 2006 – until now We had few problems/difficulties: ...
... Virgo commissioning – full power recycled ITF Feb 2006 – until now We had few problems/difficulties: ...
Projects
... NMG Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph (GNIRS) DESCRIPTION: The Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph is a $4.2 million long-slit spectrometer that has been mounted on the Gemini South 8-meter Telescope on Cerro Pachon, Chile. It will operate from 1 to 5 um and will offer two plate scales and a range of ...
... NMG Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph (GNIRS) DESCRIPTION: The Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph is a $4.2 million long-slit spectrometer that has been mounted on the Gemini South 8-meter Telescope on Cerro Pachon, Chile. It will operate from 1 to 5 um and will offer two plate scales and a range of ...
as a PDF
... All current telescopes in the 6- to 10-m class now include or will include adaptive optics (AO), thus allowing huge improvements in sensitivity and resolution. The potential gains will be even higher for the next generation of telescopes 20 m or more in diameter.1–3 But just as our telescopes take t ...
... All current telescopes in the 6- to 10-m class now include or will include adaptive optics (AO), thus allowing huge improvements in sensitivity and resolution. The potential gains will be even higher for the next generation of telescopes 20 m or more in diameter.1–3 But just as our telescopes take t ...
Part 2 : Use of CCD cameras
... This will be typically based around a SUN SPARC workstation which is a high-end desktop computer. Pixel data will be received from the CCD controller by way of a fibre optic. The hardware in such a system will be cheap and ‘off-the shelf’, the only speciality item being the high speed fibre optic tr ...
... This will be typically based around a SUN SPARC workstation which is a high-end desktop computer. Pixel data will be received from the CCD controller by way of a fibre optic. The hardware in such a system will be cheap and ‘off-the shelf’, the only speciality item being the high speed fibre optic tr ...
Remote sensing of extrasolar planets
... Entire LGS implementation dependent on capability to accurately describe, model, and understand MCAO – For example, what is the role of NGS in high order MCAO? • Can lesser, but sufficient, sky coverage may be available with fewer (or even no) LGS beacons – Probability of finding N=5 guides stars of ...
... Entire LGS implementation dependent on capability to accurately describe, model, and understand MCAO – For example, what is the role of NGS in high order MCAO? • Can lesser, but sufficient, sky coverage may be available with fewer (or even no) LGS beacons – Probability of finding N=5 guides stars of ...
The GMT Consortium Large Earth Finder Sagi Ben-Ami Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
... Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory ...
... Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory ...
Atmospheric-Turbulence Compensation Experiments Using
... laser light from the tenuous layer of atomic sodium located in the mesosphere at an altitude of 90 km [3, 7]. A beacon produced at this high altitude is advantageous because it reduces two major errors associated with a synthetic-beacon adaptive optics system. One error results from different paths ...
... laser light from the tenuous layer of atomic sodium located in the mesosphere at an altitude of 90 km [3, 7]. A beacon produced at this high altitude is advantageous because it reduces two major errors associated with a synthetic-beacon adaptive optics system. One error results from different paths ...
Paper 1 (pdf)
... Using the Center for X-ray Optics web page (http://henke.lbl.gov/optical constants/multi2.html), multilayer efficiencies were computed for a small range of materials for many of the relevant graze angles and corresponding d values. For this work, N was set to 100 and the interdiffusion thickness was ...
... Using the Center for X-ray Optics web page (http://henke.lbl.gov/optical constants/multi2.html), multilayer efficiencies were computed for a small range of materials for many of the relevant graze angles and corresponding d values. For this work, N was set to 100 and the interdiffusion thickness was ...
Document
... • Seidel aberrations are used in optical design to predict the aberrations in a design and how they will vary over the system’s field of view • The Seidel aberrations have an analytic field-dependence that is proportional to some power of field angle ...
... • Seidel aberrations are used in optical design to predict the aberrations in a design and how they will vary over the system’s field of view • The Seidel aberrations have an analytic field-dependence that is proportional to some power of field angle ...
CIN_602
... The diffraction-limited IFU FoV provided by TiPi will depend on budgetary constraints and science priorities. While the TiPi approach is in principle capable of supporting diffractionlimited IRIS science, the optical quality of the current feasibility design spectrograph optics would at a minimum ne ...
... The diffraction-limited IFU FoV provided by TiPi will depend on budgetary constraints and science priorities. While the TiPi approach is in principle capable of supporting diffractionlimited IRIS science, the optical quality of the current feasibility design spectrograph optics would at a minimum ne ...
RPT-O-G0047 Gemini Telescopes f/16 Optical
... Chopping. "Chopping" is the procedure of tip-tilting the secondary mirror in a repetitive pattern to provide an image location shift for infrared background cancellation. Conic Constant ("K"). K = -e , where e equals the eccentricity of any conic section. Emissivity, Telescope. The "Telescope emissi ...
... Chopping. "Chopping" is the procedure of tip-tilting the secondary mirror in a repetitive pattern to provide an image location shift for infrared background cancellation. Conic Constant ("K"). K = -e , where e equals the eccentricity of any conic section. Emissivity, Telescope. The "Telescope emissi ...
Laser guide star adaptive optics at the Keck Observatory
... Hartman, David Le Mignant, Christopher R. Neyman, Paul J. Stomski, Jr., and Douglas Summers W.M. Keck Observatory SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference 23 August 2002, Waikoloa, HI ...
... Hartman, David Le Mignant, Christopher R. Neyman, Paul J. Stomski, Jr., and Douglas Summers W.M. Keck Observatory SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference 23 August 2002, Waikoloa, HI ...