Dr. Rafael Morales Muñoz Profile

Dr. Rafael Morales Muñoz

Software engineer at Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia

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Proceedings Article | 17 November 2016 Paper

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CARMENES: an overview six months after first light

A. Quirrenbach, P. Amado, J. Caballero, R. Mundt, A. Reiners, I. Ribas, W. Seifert, M. Abril, J. Aceituno, F. Alonso-Floriano, H. Anwand-Heerwart, M. Azzaro, F. Bauer, D. Barrado, S. Becerril, V. J. Bejar, D. Benitez, Z. Berdinas, M. Brinkmöller, M. Cardenas, E. Casal, A. Claret, J. Colomé, M. Cortes-Contreras, S. Czesla, M. Doellinger, S. Dreizler, C. Feiz, M. Fernandez, I. Ferro, B. Fuhrmeister, D. Galadi, I. Gallardo, M. Gálvez-Ortiz, A. Garcia-Piquer, R. Garrido, L. Gesa, V. Gómez Galera, J. González Hernández, R. Gonzalez Peinado, U. Grözinger, J. Guàrdia, E. Guenther, E. de Guindos, H.-J. Hagen, A. Hatzes, P. Hauschildt, J. Helmling, T. Henning, D. Hermann, R. Hernández Arabi, L. Hernández Castaño, F. Hernández Hernando, E. Herrero, A. Huber, K. Huber, P. Huke, S. Jeffers, E. de Juan, A. Kaminski, M. Kehr, M. Kim, R. Klein, J. Klüter, M. Kürster, M. Lafarga, L. Lara, A. Lamert, W. Laun, R. Launhardt, U. Lemke, R. Lenzen, M. Llamas, M. Lopez del Fresno, M. López-Puertas, J. López-Santiago, J. Lopez Salas, H. Magan Madinabeitia, U. Mall, H. Mandel, L. Mancini, J. Marin Molina, D. Maroto Fernández, E. Martín, S. Martín-Ruiz, C. Marvin, R. Mathar, E. Mirabet, D. Montes, J. Morales, R. Morales Muñoz, E. Nagel, V. Naranjo, G. Nowak, E. Palle, J. Panduro, V. Passegger, A. Pavlov, S. Pedraz, E. Perez, D. Pérez-Medialdea, M. Perger, M. Pluto, A. Ramón , R. Rebolo, P. Redondo, S. Reffert, S. Reinhart, P. Rhode, H.-W. Rix, F. Rodler, E. Rodríguez, C. Rodríguez López, R. Rohloff, A. Rosich, M Sanchez Carrasco, J. Sanz-Forcada, P. Sarkis, L. Sarmiento, S. Schäfer, J. Schiller, C. Schmidt, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, P. Schöfer, A. Schweitzer, D. Shulyak, E. Solano, O. Stahl, C. Storz, H. Tabernero, M. Tala, L. Tal-Or, R.-G. Ulbrich, G. Veredas, J. I. Vico Linares, F. Vilardell, K. Wagner, J. Winkler, M.-R. Zapatero Osorio, M. Zechmeister, M. Ammler-von Eiff, G. Anglada-Escudé, C. del Burgo, M. Garcia-Vargas, A. Klutsch, J.-L. Lizon, M. Lopez-Morales, A. Ofir, A. Pérez-Calpena, M. A. C. Perryman, E. Sánchez-Blanco , J. B. P. Strachan, J. Stürmer, J. Suárez, T. Trifonov, S. Tulloch, W. Xu

Proceedings Volume 9908, 990812 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231880

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Stars, Calibration, Planets, Telescopes, Observatories, Control systems, Data archive systems, Fabry–Perot interferometers, Lamps

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Proceedings Article | 8 August 2016 Paper

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CARMENES: The CARMENES instrument control software suite

J. Colomé, J. Guàrdia, H.-J. Hagen, R. Morales Muñoz, M. Abril, D. Benítez, J. Caballero, M. Fresno, A. García-Piquer, Ll. Gesa, E. de Guindos, E. de Juan, J. Schiller, I. Vico, F. Vilardell, M. Zechmeister, A. Reiners, I. Ribas, W. Seifert, A. Quirrenbach, P. Amado

Proceedings Volume 9913, 991334 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2234494

KEYWORDS: Control systems, Telescopes, Near infrared, Sensors, Human-machine interfaces, Calibration, Telecommunications, Electronics, Computing systems, Mirrors

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Proceedings Article | 29 July 2016 Paper

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SINBAD electronic models of the interface and control system for the NOMAD spectrometer on board of ESA ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission

José M. Jerónimo Zafra, Rosario Sanz Mesa, Juan M. Gómez López, Julio F. Rodríguez Gómez, Beatriz Aparicio del Moral, Rafael Morales Muñoz, Gian Paolo Candini, M. Carmen Pastor Morales, Nicolás Robles Muñoz, José Juan López-Moreno, Ann Carine Vandaele, Eddy Neefs, Rachel Drummond, Sofie Delanoye, Sophie Berkenbosch, Roland Clairquin, Bojan Ristic, Jeroen Maes, Sabrina Bonnewijn, Manish R. Patel, Mark Leese

Proceedings Volume 9904, 99045B (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233353

KEYWORDS: Control systems, Space operations, Field programmable gate arrays, Spectroscopy, Prototyping, Field programmable gate arrays, Prototyping, Telecommunications, Instrument modeling, Atmospheric sciences, System on a chip, Aerospace engineering

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Proceedings Article | 26 July 2016 Paper

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SINBAD flight software, the on-board software of NOMAD in ExoMars 2016

M. Pastor-Morales, Julio Rodríguez-Gómez, Rafael Morales-Muñoz, Juan Gómez-López, Beatriz Aparicio-del-Moral, Gian Paolo Candini, Jose Jerónimo-Zafra, Jose López-Moreno, Nicolás Robles-Muñoz, Rosario Sanz-Mesa, Eddy Neefs, Ann Vandaele, Rachel Drummond, Ian Thomas, Sophie Berkenbosch, Roland Clairquin, Sofie Delanoye, Bojan Ristic, Jeroen Maes, Sabrina Bonnewijn, Manish Patel, Mark Leese, Jon Mason

Proceedings Volume 9913, 99133I (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2230760

KEYWORDS: Space operations, Control systems, Mirrors, Technetium, Thulium, Telecommunications, Data storage, Software development, Sensors, Error control coding

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Proceedings Article | 22 July 2016 Paper

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CARMENES-NIR channel spectrograph cooling system AIV: thermo-mechanical performance of the instrument

S. Becerril, E. Mirabet, J. L. Lizon, M. Abril, C. Cárdenas, I. Ferro, R. Morales, D. Pérez, A. Ramón, M. A. Sánchez-Carrasco, A. Quirrenbach, P. Amado, I. Ribas, A. Reiners, J. Caballero, W. Seifert, J. Herranz

Proceedings Volume 9912, 991262 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232322

KEYWORDS: Cooling systems, Near infrared, Spectrographs, Cryogenics, Observatories, Telescopes, Sensors, Temperature sensors, Surface plasmons, Optical components

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 2016 Paper

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CARMENES-NIR channel spectrograph: how to achieve the full AIV at system level of a cryo-instrument in nine months

S. Becerril, C. Cárdenas, P. Amado, M. Abril, I. Ferro, E. Mirabet, R. Morales, D. Pérez, A. Ramón, M. A. Sánchez-Carrasco, A. Quirrenbach, I. Ribas, A. Reiners, J. A. Caballero Hernández, W. Seifert

Proceedings Volume 9910, 99100Q (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232482

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Projection systems, Collimation, Calibration, Integrating spheres, Photodiodes, Charge-coupled devices, Atmospheric optics, Sensors, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 2016 Paper

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CARMENES: data flow

J. A. Caballero, J. Guàrdia, M. López del Fresno, M. Zechmeister, E. de Juan, F. J. Alonso-Floriano, P. Amado, J. Colomé, M. Cortés-Contreras, Á. García-Piquer, L. Gesa, E. de Guindos, H.-J. Hagen, J. Helmling, L. Hernández Castaño, M. Kürster, J. López-Santiago, D. Montes, R. Morales Muñoz, A. Pavlov, A. Quirrenbach, A. Reiners, I. Ribas, W. Seifert, E. Solano

Proceedings Volume 9910, 99100E (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233574

KEYWORDS: Algorithm development, Computing systems, Computing systems, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Stars, Astronomy, Databases, Visualization, Imaging systems, Cameras, Galactic astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2014 Paper

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CARMENES instrument overview

A. Quirrenbach, P. Amado, J. Caballero, R. Mundt, A. Reiners, I. Ribas, W. Seifert, M. Abril, J. Aceituno, F. J. Alonso-Floriano, M. Ammler-von Eiff, R. Antona Jiménez, H. Anwand-Heerwart, M. Azzaro, F. Bauer, D. Barrado, S. Becerril, V. J. Béjar, D. Benítez, Z. Berdiñas, M. Cárdenas, E. Casal, A. Claret, J. Colomé, M. Cortés-Contreras, S. Czesla, M. Doellinger, S. Dreizler, C. Feiz, M. Fernández, D. Galadí, M. Gálvez-Ortiz, A. García-Piquer, M. García-Vargas, R. Garrido, L. Gesa, V. Gómez Galera, E. González Álvarez, J. González Hernández, U. Grözinger, J. Guàrdia, E. Guenther, E. de Guindos, J. Gutiérrez-Soto, H.-J. Hagen, A. Hatzes, P. Hauschildt, J. Helmling, T. Henning, D. Hermann, L. Hernández Castaño, E. Herrero, D. Hidalgo, G. Holgado, A. Huber, K. Huber, S. Jeffers, V. Joergens, E. de Juan, M. Kehr, R. Klein, M. Kürster, A. Lamert, S. Lalitha, W. Laun, U. Lemke, R. Lenzen, Mauro López del Fresno, B. López Martí, J. López-Santiago, U. Mall, H. Mandel, E. Martín, S. Martín-Ruiz, H. Martínez-Rodríguez, C. Marvin, R. Mathar, E. Mirabet, D. Montes, R. Morales Muñoz, A. Moya, V. Naranjo, A. Ofir, R. Oreiro, E. Pallé, J. Panduro, V.-M. Passegger, A. Pérez-Calpena, D. Pérez Medialdea, M. Perger, M. Pluto, A. Ramón, R. Rebolo, P. Redondo, S. Reffert, S. Reinhardt, P. Rhode, H.-W. Rix, F. Rodler, E. Rodríguez, C. Rodríguez-López, E. Rodríguez-Pérez, R.-R. Rohloff, A. Rosich, E. Sánchez-Blanco, M. Sánchez Carrasco, J. Sanz-Forcada, L. Sarmiento, S. Schäfer, J. Schiller, C. Schmidt, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, E. Solano, O. Stahl, C. Storz, J. Stürmer, J. Suárez, R. Ulbrich, G. Veredas, K. Wagner, J. Winkler, M. Zapatero Osorio, M. Zechmeister, F. Abellán de Paco, G. Anglada-Escudé, C. del Burgo, A. Klutsch, J. Lizon, M. López-Morales, J. Morales, M. A. C. Perryman, S. Tulloch, W. Xu

Proceedings Volume 9147, 91471F (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056453

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Optical fibers, Lamps, Stars, Telescopes, Calibration, Planets, Sensors, Visible radiation, Exoplanets

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This paper gives an overview of the CARMENES instrument and of the survey that will be carried out with it during the first years of operation. CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Echelle Spectrographs) is a next-generation radial-velocity instrument under construction for the 3.5m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory by a consortium of eleven Spanish and German institutions. The scientific goal of the project is conducting a 600-night exoplanet survey targeting ~ 300 M dwarfs with the completed instrument. The CARMENES instrument consists of two separate echelle spectrographs covering the wavelength range from 0.55 to 1.7 μm at a spectral resolution of R = 82,000, fed by fibers from the Cassegrain focus of the telescope. The spectrographs are housed in vacuum tanks providing the temperature-stabilized environments necessary to enable a 1 m/s radial velocity precision employing a simultaneous calibration with an emission-line lamp or with a Fabry-Perot etalon. For mid-M to late-M spectral types, the wavelength range around 1.0 μm (Y band) is the most important wavelength region for radial velocity work. Therefore, the efficiency of CARMENES has been optimized in this range. The CARMENES instrument consists of two spectrographs, one equipped with a 4k x 4k pixel CCD for the range 0.55 - 1.05 μm, and one with two 2k x 2k pixel HgCdTe detectors for the range from 0.95 - 1.7μm. Each spectrograph will be coupled to the 3.5m telescope with two optical fibers, one for the target, and one for calibration light. The front end contains a dichroic beam splitter and an atmospheric dispersion corrector, to feed the light into the fibers leading to the spectrographs. Guiding is performed with a separate camera; on-axis as well as off-axis guiding modes are implemented. Fibers with octagonal cross-section are employed to ensure good stability of the output in the presence of residual guiding errors. The fibers are continually actuated to reduce modal noise. The spectrographs are mounted on benches inside vacuum tanks located in the coud´e laboratory of the 3.5m dome. Each vacuum tank is equipped with a temperature stabilization system capable of keeping the temperature constant to within ±0.01°C over 24 hours. The visible-light spectrograph will be operated near room temperature, while the near-IR spectrograph will be cooled to ~ 140 K. The CARMENES instrument passed its final design review in February 2013. The MAIV phase is currently ongoing. First tests at the telescope are scheduled for early 2015. Completion of the full instrument is planned for the fall of 2015. At least 600 useable nights have been allocated at the Calar Alto 3.5m Telescope for the CARMENES survey in the time frame until 2018. A data base of M stars (dubbed CARMENCITA) has been compiled from which the CARMENES sample can be selected. CARMENCITA contains information on all relevant properties of the potential targets. Dedicated imaging, photometric, and spectroscopic observations are underway to provide crucial data on these stars that are not available in the literature.

Proceedings Article | 5 October 2012 Paper

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CARMENES. I: instrument and survey overview

Andreas Quirrenbach, Pedro Amado, Walter Seifert, Miguel Sánchez Carrasco, Holger Mandel, Jose Caballero, Reinhard Mundt, Ignasi Ribas, Ansgar Reiners, Miguel Abril, Jesus Aceituno, Javier Alonso-Floriano, Matthias Ammler-von Eiff, Guillem Anglada-Escude, Regina Antona Jiménez, Heiko Anwand-Heerwart, David Barrado y Navascués, Santiago Becerril, Victor Bejar, Daniel Benitez, Concepcion Cardenas, Antonio Claret, Josep Colome, Miriam Cortés-Contreras, Stefan Czesla, Carlos del Burgo, Michaela Doellinger, R. Dorda, Stefan Dreizler, Carmen Feiz, Matilde Fernandez, David Galadi, Rafael Garrido, Jonay González Hernández, Josep Guardia, Eike Guenther, Enrique de Guindos, Juan Gutiérrez-Soto, Hans Hagen, Artie Hatzes, Peter Hauschildt, Jens Helmling, Thomas Henning, Enrique Herrero, Armin Huber, Klaus Huber, Sandra Jeffers, Viki Joergens, Enrique de Juan, M. Kehr, Alexis Klutsch, Martin Kürster, S. Lalitha, Werner Laun, Ulrike Lemke, Rainer Lenzen, Jean-Louis Lizon, Mauro López del Fresno, Mercedes López-Morales, Javier López-Santiago, Ulrich Mall, Eduardo Martin, Susana Martín-Ruiz, Eduard Mirabet, David Montes, Juan Carlos Morales, Rafael Morales Muñoz, Andres Moya, Vianak Naranjo, Raquel Oreiro, David Pérez Medialdea, Michael Pluto, Ovidio Rabaza, Alejandro Ramon, Rafael Rebolo, Sabine Reffert, Petra Rhode, Hans-Walter Rix, Florian Rodler, Eloy Rodríguez, Cristina Rodríguez López, Emilio Rodríguez Pérez, A. Rodriguez Trinidad, Ralf-Reiner Rohloff, Ernesto Sánchez-Blanco, Jorge Sanz-Forcada, Sebastian Schäfer, Jörg Schiller, Christof Schmidt, Jürgen Schmitt, Enrique Solano, Otmar Stahl, Clemens Storz, Julian Stürmer, Juan Carlos Suarez, Ulrich Thiele, Rainer Ulbrich, Manuela Vidal-Dasilva, Karl Wagner, Johannes Winkler, Wenli Xu, Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio, Mathias Zechmeister

Proceedings Volume 8446, 84460R (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925164

KEYWORDS: Stars, Lamps, Planets, Spectrographs, Optical fibers, Calibration, Sensors, Telescopes, Exoplanets, Near infrared

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Proceedings Article | 24 September 2012 Paper

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CARMENES. IV: instrument control software

Josep Guàrdia, Josep Colomé, Ignasi Ribas, Hans-Jürgen Hagen, Rafael Morales, Miguel Abril, David Galadí-Enríquez, Walter Seifert, Miguel Sánchez Carrasco, Andreas Quirrenbach, Pedro Amado, Jose Caballero, Holger Mandel

Proceedings Volume 8451, 84512S (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926981

KEYWORDS: Control systems, Near infrared, Data processing, Observatories, Telescopes, Calibration, Astronomy, Computer programming, Telecommunications, Automatic control

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Proceedings Article | 19 July 2010 Paper

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A simple way to build an ANSI-C like compiler from scratch and embed it on the instrument's software

Alicia Rodríguez Trinidad, Rafael Morales Muñoz, Miguel Abril Martí, Luis Pedro Costillo Iciarra, M. C. Cárdenas Vázquez, Ovidio Rabaza Castillo, Alejandro Ramón Ballesta, Miguel Sánchez Carrasco, Santiago Becerril Jarque, Pedro J. Amado González

Proceedings Volume 7740, 774025 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856385

KEYWORDS: Java, Prototyping, C++, Computer programming languages, Computer programming, Windows XP, Software development, Embedded systems, Astronomy, Current controlled current source

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 2010 Paper

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Comprehensive transient-state study for CARMENES NIR high-thermal stability

Santiago Becerril, Miguel Sánchez, M. Cárdenas, Ovidio Rabaza, Alejandro Ramón, Miguel Abril, Luis Costillo, Rafael Morales, Alicia Rodríguez, Pedro Amado

Proceedings Volume 7735, 77352S (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856455

KEYWORDS: Optical benches, Spectrographs, Near infrared, Temperature metrology, Convection, Thermal analysis, Calibration, Radiative energy transfer, Telescopes, Velocity measurements

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 2010 Paper

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CARMENES: Calar Alto high-resolution search for M dwarfs with exo-earths with a near-infrared Echelle spectrograph

A. Quirrenbach, P. Amado, H. Mandel, J. Caballero, R. Mundt, I. Ribas, A. Reiners, M. Abril, J. Aceituno, C. Afonso, D. Barrado y Navascues, J. Bean, V. J. Béjar, S. Becerril, A. Böhm, M. Cárdenas, A. Claret, J. Colomé, L. Costillo, S. Dreizler, M. Fernández, X. Francisco, D. Galadí, R. Garrido, J. González Hernández, J. Guàrdia, E. Guenther, F. Gutiérrez-Soto, V. Joergens, A. Hatzes, J. Helmling, T. Henning, E. Herrero, M. Kürster, W. Laun, R. Lenzen, U. Mall, E. Martin, S. Martín-Ruiz, E. Mirabet, D. Montes, J. Morales, R. Morales Muñoz, A. Moya, V. Naranjo, O. Rabaza, A. Ramón, R. Rebolo, S. Reffert, F. Rodler, E. Rodríguez, A. Rodríguez Trinidad, R. Rohloff, M. Sánchez Carrasco, C. Schmidt, W. Seifert, J. Setiawan, E. Solano, O. Stahl, C. Storz, J. Suárez, U. Thiele, K. Wagner, G. Wiedemann, M. Zapatero Osorio, C. del Burgo, E. Sánchez-Blanco, W. Xu

Proceedings Volume 7735, 773513 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857777

KEYWORDS: Planets, Stars, Spectrographs, Calibration, Sensors, Lamps, Optical fibers, Exoplanets, Telescopes, Spectral resolution

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Proceedings Article | 14 July 2008 Paper

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UDP: an integral management system of embedded scripts implemented into the IMaX instrument of the Sunrise mission

Rafael Morales Muñoz, Pablo Mellado, José Marco de la Rosa

Proceedings Volume 7019, 701916 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788192

KEYWORDS: Databases, Digital signal processing, Embedded systems, Control systems, Telecommunications, Signal processing, Computer programming, C++, Systems engineering, Error control coding

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Proceedings Article | 7 July 2006 Paper

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Detailed design of the imaging magnetograph experiment (IMaX): a visible imager magnetograph for the Sunrise mission

A. Álvarez-Herrero, T. Belenguer, C. Pastor, L. González, R. Heredero, G. Ramos, M. Reina, A. Sánchez, J. Villanueva, L. Sabau, V. Martínez Pillet, J. Bonet, M. Collados, L. Jochum, E. Ballesteros, J. Medina Trujillo, Cobo Ruiz, J. González, J. del Toro Iniesta, A. López Jiménez, J. Castillo Lorenzo, M. Herranz, J. Jerónimo, P. Mellado, R. Morales, J. Rodríguez, V. Domingo, J. Gasent, P. Rodríquez

Proceedings Volume 6265, 62654C (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672117

KEYWORDS: Fabry–Perot interferometers, Imaging systems, Telescopes, Solar processes, Polarization, Sensors, Cameras, Magnetism, Polarimetry, Charge-coupled devices

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Proceedings Article | 12 October 2004 Paper

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The imaging magnetograph eXperiment for the SUNRISE balloon Antarctica project

Valentin Martinez Pillet, Jose Bonet, Manuel Collados, Lieselotte Jochum, S. Mathew, J.L. Medina Trujillo, B. Ruiz Cobo, Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta, A.C. Lopez Jimenez, J. Castillo Lorenzo, M. Herranz, J.M. Jeronimo, P. Mellado, R. Morales, J. Rodriguez, Alberto Alvarez-Herrero, Tomas Belenguer, R.L. Heredero, M. Menendez, G. Ramos, Manuel Reina, C. Pastor, A. Sanchez, J. Villanueva, Vicente Domingo, J.L. Gasent, P. Rodriguez

Proceedings Volume 5487, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.549020

KEYWORDS: Fabry–Perot interferometers, Magnetism, Sensors, Wavefronts, Charge-coupled devices, Electronics, Diffraction, Modulation, Cameras, Reflectivity

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