Dr. Jonathan H. Elias Profile

Dr. Jonathan H. Elias

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Publications (21)

PROCEEDINGS ARTICLE | July 10, 2018

The SOAR Telescope as a node in a time domain followup-network: concepts and plans

Proc. SPIE. 10704, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VII

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Telescopes, Spectrographs, Astronomy, Interfaces, Astronomical telescopes, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

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PROCEEDINGS ARTICLE | July 6, 2018

SOAR telescope mount control unit upgrade project: introduction and status report

Proc. SPIE. 10700, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VII

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Telescopes, Sensors, Amplifiers, Field programmable gate arrays, Control systems, Computer programming, Data acquisition, Control systems design

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PROCEEDINGS ARTICLE | July 27, 2016

SOAR Telescope seismic performance I: impact of the 2015 Illapel earthquake

Proc. SPIE. 9906, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Telescopes, Mirrors, Gemini Observatory, Data modeling, Inspection, Computer programming, Earthquakes, Head, Astronomical telescopes

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PROCEEDINGS ARTICLE | July 27, 2016

SOAR Telescope seismic performance II: seismic mitigation

Proc. SPIE. 9906, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Mirrors, Switches, Computer programming, Earthquakes, Head, Finite element methods, Astronomical telescopes, Lanthanum, Optical instrument design, Optical instrument design

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PROCEEDINGS ARTICLE | July 15, 2016

SOAR telescope operation in the LSST era: real-time follow-up on large scales

Proc. SPIE. 9910, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI

KEYWORDS: Actuators, Telescopes, Mirrors, Oscillators, Gemini Observatory, Control systems, Computer programming, Earthquakes, Zerodur, Secondary tip-tilt mirrors

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PROCEEDINGS ARTICLE | July 22, 2014

Save our secondary: recovering a broken 1.3-m mirror

Proc. SPIE. 9145, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Monochromatic aberrations, Telescopes, Mirrors, Optical spheres, Cameras, Glasses, Optical testing, Space telescopes, Spherical lenses

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PROCEEDINGS ARTICLE | July 22, 2014

Planning the installation of the dark energy spectroscopic instrument on the Mayall Telescope

Proc. SPIE. 9145, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Telescopes, Mirrors, Spectrographs, Safety, Computing systems, Space telescopes, Domes, Galactic astronomy, Spectroscopes

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PROCEEDINGS ARTICLE | July 8, 2014

KOSMOS and COSMOS: new facility instruments for the NOAO 4-meter telescopes

Proc. SPIE. 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Telescopes, Optical filters, Spectrographs, Cameras, Sensors, Collimators, Charge-coupled devices, Optical benches, Astronomical imaging

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PROCEEDINGS ARTICLE | July 6, 2006

Control and support of 4-meter class secondary and tertiary mirrors for the Thirty Meter Telescope

Proc. SPIE. 6273, Optomechanical Technologies for Astronomy

KEYWORDS: Actuators, Monochromatic aberrations, Telescopes, Mirrors, Thirty Meter Telescope, Adaptive optics, Control systems, Computer programming, Active optics, Systems modeling

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PROCEEDINGS ARTICLE | June 29, 2006

Design tradeoffs for a high spectral resolution mid-infrared echelle spectrograph on the Thirty-Meter Telescope