26 sample documents related to MFS 4

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  donut.pdf

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  Donut: measuring optical aberrations from a single extra-focal image A. Tokovinin and S. Heathcote arXiv:astro-ph/0606388 v1 15 Jun 2006 Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile atokovinin@ctio.noao.edu, sheathcote@cti
   
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  xspextool_helpfile.txt

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  Spextool Manual = - Quick and Dirty Manual for Running SPEXTOOL - a package for reducing SpeX data -- (W D Vacca and M C Cushing, 16 September 2006 - Spextool Version 3.4) The following is a brief description of how to run the Spextool package wr
   
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  tspec_black_paint.pdf

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  Painting Procedure Aeroglaze Z306 Flat Black Absorptive Polyurethane 1. Applicable Surfaces - Generic aluminum or stainless steel surface works perfect. Remove grease and machining oil before use. 2. Primer - Before using Z306, apply Primer to provid
   
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  fdr_response.pdf

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  Triplespec Final Design Review Response Instrumentation Group Astronomy Dept University of Virginia 530 McCormick Rd Charlottesville, VA 22903 March 19, 2006 1 Introduction A Final Design Review for the Triplespec instrument was held at Apache Poi
   
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  cd2summary.pdf

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  1 Vacuum and Cryogenics Pumped to 5e-05 Torr Initial fill consumed ~100 liters of LN2 Cold equilibrium pressure 2e-06 Torr Consumption 15 liters/day Hold time for minimum fill 4 days UVaTripleSpecCooldown2Summary 2 Cooldown Configura
   
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  tspec_status_2007Apr03.pdf

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  TripleSpecStatusApril2007 Dewar FirstCooldown OptomechanicalAssembly OptomechanicalAssembly OptomechanicalAssembly Hawaii2ArrayMount RefractiveOptics(non)CrackTested andDelivered TripleSpecAdditions UVafinanc
   
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  TripleSpecCookbook.pdf

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  TripleSpec Cookbook Terry Herter 19-Feb-08 Version 0.1 These are a few notes to help with taking science data and calibrating it. Hopefully this will help until we get the users manual written. For those of you using TripleSpec during this risk peri
   
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  cool2focus.pdf

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  UVa Focus Analysis: cd 2 TLH: 21-Feb-08 1 Focus Image: cd 2, argon lamp 2 Expected PSF change with focus top middle bottom Focus Posn (m) 9200 9300 9400 9500 9600 9700 9800 9900 10000 10100 10200 Top: Series of model calculation by Joe Adams sho
   
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  herter_cd3_flexure.pdf

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  UVa TripleSpec Flexure Cooldown 3 03/05/08 - TLH Summary The following slides show the shift for different rotations of UVa TripleSpec during cd 3 testing. 2 Shift measurement 45 deg CW 800 600 y 400 200 0 0 500 1000 x 1500 2000 The focus
   
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  tspec_review.pdf

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  TripleSpec Final Design Review Apache Point Observatory NSO Sunspot Visitor Center December 6-7, 2005 Introduction TripleSpec is a near infrared single-object cross-dispersed spectrograph with sufficient resolving power to deblend sky OH emission li
   
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  TDR_02.pdf

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  TDR_2: Optics John Wilson TripleSpec Design Review Dec 6-7, 2005 Outline System Overview Telescope Focal Posn Lyot Stop ZnSe Prisms TripleSpec Design Review
   
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  primary_overview.pdf

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  2MASS Prim a ry Survey Overview or. ho w ha s w ha t a lrea d y ha s b een d one set the sta g e for the Extend ed Mission The 2MASS Point a nd Extend ed sourc e c a ta lo g s w ere d ra w n from the w orking survey d a ta b a ses suc h tha t they m
   
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  BD_paper_v15.pdf

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  To appear in ApJ New Young Brown Dwarfs in the Orion Molecular Cloud 2/3 Region1 Dawn E. Peterson2,3 Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 dawnp@virginia.edu S. T. Megeath2,3 Department of Physics and Astronomy,
   
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  triplespec.pdf

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  Mass Producing an ecient NIR spectrograph J. C. Wilsona , Charles P. Hendersonb , Terry L. Herterb , K. Matthewsc , M. F. Skrutskiea , Joseph D. Adamsb , Dae-Sik Moonc , Roger Smithc , Nick Gautierd , Mike Resslerd , B. T. Soiferc , Sean Linc , J. Ho
   
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  gal.pdf

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  Galactic Structure White Paper The Warm Spitzer Mission: Opportunities to Study Galactic Structure and the Interstellar Medium Robert Benjamin1 , Bruce Draine2 , Rmy Indebetouw3 Charles Lada4 , Steve Majewski3 , Neill e 5 , and Michael Skrutskie3 Re
   
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  4010-24_spie_final.pdf

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  Header for SPIE use Optimizing Maintenance and Improvements on the ARC 3.5m Telescope to Maximize Scientific Return Mark Klaene a Apache Point Observatory PO Box 59 Sunspot NM 88349 ABSTRACT The ARC 3.5-m telescope began operations in 1994. Shortly
   
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  Faculty_Summary.pdf

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  Trading a Triple c copy for Te scopetim . spe le e 2048 1024 Wide spectral coverage Resolution Slit width (arcsec) Slit length (arcsec) Moving Parts? Slit Viewer 0.8 2.4 m simultaneously 2700 (100 km/sec) 1.0 (Palomar), 0.5 (Keck) 30 (Palomar), 1
   
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  TDR_01_BW.pdf

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  TDR_1: Introduction, Science & Instrument Requirements John Wilson TripleSpec Design Review Dec 6-7, 2005 Outline Introductions Scientific Rationale Heritage of Triplespec project Partner Institutions (Cornell, JPL, Caltech) Near Duplicates S
   
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  pupilstop.pdf

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  TripleSpec Pupil Alignment Pupil Mask Description The TripleSpec system has a cold pupil stop located at an image conjugate of the telescope\'s secondary mirror. The stop defines the outer edge of the secondary mirror illumination as well as masks the
   
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  tspec_stycast.pdf

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  Thermal Epoxy Procedure STYCASTTM 2850 FT BLACK 1. Health and Safety - Keep the general Safety Rules; no inhalation, no direct touch on your skin. Working in fume hood with a pair of rubber gloves and eye protecting goggle should be OK. 2. Two Compo
   
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  cool2.ppt

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  1 Vacuum and Cryogenics Pumped to 5e05 Torr Initial fill consumed ~100 liters of LN2 Cold equilibrium pressure 2e 06 Torr Consumption 15 liters/day - Hold time for minimum fill 4 days UVa TripleSpec Cooldown 2 Summary 2 Cooldown Con
   
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  cool3focus2.pdf

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  1 2 Focus shift based on cd 3 50 0 3 CD3 Fits 0.200 z = 0.200 0.200 100 50 0.200 zn = 0.206 0.189 df df 50 err err 0 100 50 stdev ( df ) = 52.539 150 1000 100 1000 stdev ( err) = 49.987 1000 500 0 x xc, y yc 500 1000 500 0
   
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  H1focus.pdf

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  No adjustment to the HAWAII-1 position for Cooldown 4 A first look at the aberrations of the speckle defects in the reflective slit substrate suggested that the focus move made between cooldown 2 and cooldown 3 overshot the target. The speckles in th
   
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  cool3focus.pdf

  UVA MFS 4
  

  UVa Focus Analysis: cd 3 TLH: 01-Mar-08 1 cd3: Focus Analysis Summary Fit 2D gaussian to a set of lines for the top of slit. Output is FWHM for major and minor axis (called x_FWHM & y_FWHM) and orientation (theta). Lines chosen to be (mostly) unsat
   
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  cd4summary.pdf

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  1 Cooldown 4 Results Cryogenics and vacuum nominal pumpdown history of cooldown 4 and final opening of dewar. UVa TripleSpec Cooldown 4 Summary 2 Cooldown 4 objectives Check stability of spectrograph focus The focus was unchanged. 5 pi
   
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  cd3summary.pdf

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  1 Cooldown 3 Results Cryogenic and Vacuum Summary HAWAII-2 (spectrograph) array focus Gain, read-noise, Fowler sampling HAWAII-1 (slit viewer) array focus Slit exchange mechanism Low level software (timing code) User interface / TUI Reducti