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Telescopes and Instrumentation
Telescopes Available for Graduate Student Research in Arizona
New Books
- Fundamentals of Infrared Detector Materials
- Introduction to Image Stabilization
- Field Guide to Adaptive Optics
- Introduction to Adaptive Optics
Recent News Headlines
- Radar generates high-resolution topographic map of the Moon
- Ion beam figuring for precision optics
- Biologically inspired computation for intelligent autonomous exploration
- An efficient facility spectrometer for the European extremely large telescope
- Reshaping light using aspheric optics for direct imaging of exoplanets
- Lessons for the future on asteroid's surface
- Diving into Jupiter's northern lights
- Advances in ray-tracing techniques for multiple-aperture telescopes
- New materials advance gamma-ray telescopes
- Lightweight optical telescope structures built from plastic composites
- Extra-terrestrial resource use is key to human expansion through the cosmos
- Testing light suppression for the New Worlds Observer mission
- “Starshades” for exoplanet detection and characterization
- Intelligent systems for the autonomous exploration of Titan and Enceladus
- Microshutter arrays will paint the picture of the early universe
- Chasing exoplanets with the help of a chessboard and Pascal's triangle
- An image slicer spectrograph for the SNAP mission
- FUSE astronomy satellite decommissioned after eight-year mission
- Building the world's largest optical solar telescope
- Probing the heart of extragalactic sources
- Method identifies blazar candidates
- Hyperspectral imaging at the speed of light
- Polarimetry in the mid-infrared: new vistas for SOFIA, NASA's airborne observatory
- High redshift x-ray galaxy clusters
- Herschel Space Observatory to get Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver
- Freeform optical surface polishing machine helps optical designers
- Four telescopes are better than one
- Interferometer to observe solar roots of space weather
- Recent developments in adaptive optics
- Measuring the Hubble Space Telescope's position and orientation in orbit
- Feature matching based on corner and edge constraints
- Connected morphological operators improve image classification
- Beyond the resolution limit: hyperacuity in animals and now in silicon
- New algorithm for high-precision photometry in crowded star fields
- Searching for other Earths using high-contrast imaging
- Tiny mirrors for huge telescopes
- The quasi-optical design of telescopes to image the early universe
- Simulation trails improve accuracy and efficiency in astrophysical simulations
- James Webb Space Telescope optical technology milestones achieved
- SWAN: galaxy morphology and evolution from adaptive optics-assisted imaging
- Nature-inspired optics enable omnidirectional and omnispectral imaging
- Moiré technique improves the measurement of atmospheric turbulence parameters
- An automatic pipeline can detect highly variable sources in astronomical images
- Assessing atmospheric turbulence at observatory sites
- Direct UV writing speeds up the exploitation of integrated optics in stellar interferometry
- Generation of atmosphere-like optical turbulence
- Fine-tuning the rotational shearing interferometer to detect extrasolar planets
- A robust transmission system for astronomical images over error-prone links
- 'Pi of the Sky' project studies rapidly varying astrophysical objects
- Improving resolution in large telescopes
- An optical vortex coronagraph for high-contrast imaging
- An adaptively corrected composite material telescope
- Toward digitizing a century of astronomical full-sky images at Harvard
- PATENTS: Optical engineering advances for astronomy
- Astronomical applications of a micro pixel chamber
- Astronomical observations from Antarctica trace large-scale magnetic fields in stellar nurseries
- Calibrating a solar x-ray telescope using the Crab Nebula
- The Gran Telescopio Canarias: getting ready for first light
- Interference filters allow the study of extended objects
- Building large, lightweight space telescopes in space
- The Gran Telescopio Canarias: getting ready for first light
- New architecture for space telescopes uses Fresnel lenses
- Sounding-rocket telescope uses new technology ultra-lightweight mirrors
- Active optics: pushing x-ray astronomy to its limits
