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Nicole David

at Carnegie Observatories

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

Upgrades to the Magellan Telescopes mirror coating process

Juan Espoz, Nicole David, Povilas Palunas

Proceedings Volume 11451, 114515R (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563629

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Telescopes, Coating, Inductance, Aluminum, Silicon, Resistance

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Paper

Upgrading the SOAR telescope calibration wave front sensor system

Nicole David, Marco Bonati, Jose Piraces, Cesar Briceño, Rolando Cantarutti, Roberto Tighe

Proceedings Volume 11445, 114458L (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562819

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Wavefront sensors, Sensor calibration, Calibration, Cameras, Sensors, Active optics, Image sensors, Stars, Wavefronts

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

Improving the UV reflectance of the aluminum coating of the 4m SOAR Telescope in the Gemini 8-m sputtering coating facility

Nicole David, Cristian Moreno, Roberto Tighe, Rodrigo Alvarez, Jose Piraces, Claudio Araya, Vicente Vergara, Rossano Rivera, Guillermo Dubo

Proceedings Volume 11445, 1144565 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562753

KEYWORDS: Coating, Reflectivity, Aluminum, Telescopes, Sputter deposition, Ultraviolet radiation, Reflector telescopes, Ultraviolet telescopes, Gemini Observatory, Mirrors

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

TSPEC4: near-IR spectroscopy for the SOAR telescope

Terry Herter, Charles Henderson, Marco Bonati, John Wilson, Katelyn Allers, Nicole David, Jonathan Elias, David James, Jose Piraces, Sean Points, Ron Probst, Everett Schlawin, Patricio Schurter, Roberto Tighe, Michael Warner

Proceedings Volume 11447, 114476L (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563035

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Infrared radiation, Infrared spectroscopy, Telescopes, Optical instrument design, Optomechanical design, Infrared imaging, Visible radiation, Image quality, Optical properties

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Paper

New wavefront-sensing guiders for SOAR

Andrei Tokovinin, Nicole David, José Piracés, Rolando Cantarutti

Proceedings Volume 10702, 107022F (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312082

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Stars, Cameras, Telescopes, Sensors, Charge-coupled devices, Vignetting, Lenses, Mechanical engineering

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

A new Cassegrain calibration lamp unit for the Blanco Telescope

S. Points, D. James, R. Tighe, A. Montané, N. David, M. Martínez

Proceedings Volume 9908, 99082N (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232995

KEYWORDS: Calibration, Lamps, Spectrographs, Telescopes, Integrating spheres, Space telescopes, Quartz, Mirrors, Spectral calibration, Lenses

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Proceedings Article | 27 July 2016 Paper

The Blanco Telescope and its instruments: a status report

Timothy M. Abbott, Alistair Walker, Sean Points, David James, Brooke Gregory, Roberto Tighe, Nicole David, Esteban Parkes, Rolando Cantarutti, Michael Warner, Omar Estay, Manuel Martínez, Marco Bonati, Edison Bustos, Andrés Montané, Freddy Muñoz , Patricio Schurter

Proceedings Volume 9906, 99064D (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232723

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Spectrographs, Imaging systems, Astronomical imaging, Charge-coupled devices, Control systems, Mirrors, Servomechanisms, Reflectivity

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Proceedings Article | 28 July 2014 Paper

LOTUCE2: a dome-seeing instrument for the E-ELT

Amokrane Berdja, Dani Guzman, Norman Saez, Nicole David, Nicolás Dubost, Marc Sarazin, Aziz Ziad

Proceedings Volume 9147, 91479R (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056270

KEYWORDS: Optical turbulence, Charge-coupled devices, Telescopes, Cameras, Turbulence, Mirrors, Domes, Point spread functions, Collimation, Optical design

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Proceedings Article | 13 September 2012 Paper

Tomographic reconstructor for multi-object adaptive optics using artificial neural networks

Dani Guzman, Alexandre Mello, James Osborn, Francisco De Cos, Marlon Gómez, Timothy Butterley, Nicole David, Nieves Roqueñi, Richard Myers, Andrés Guesalaga, Matias Salas

Proceedings Volume 8447, 844740 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925355

KEYWORDS: Stars, Tomography, Wavefronts, Turbulence, Adaptive optics, Artificial neural networks, Neural networks, Neurons, Device simulation, Telescopes

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