NOAO at the SPIE Meeting

NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation

The SPIE is sponsoring an International Symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 20-28 March 1998 at the Kona Surf Resort and Country Club, Kona, Hawaii. We present below many of the abstracts of papers being presented at the meeting by NOAO scientific and engineering staff members. In some cases we also give links to the PostScript and/or the PDF version of the full paper.

These papers will be published in the Proceedings of the SPIE Volumes 3349-3355, as appropriate, and are made available as electronic preprints with permission of SPIE. Single print or electronic copies for personal use only are allowed. Systematic or multiple reproduction, or distribution to multiple locations through an electronic listserver or other electronic means, or duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes is prohibited. By choosing to view or print this document, you agree to all the provisions of the copyright law protecting it (Copyright 1998 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers).

Conference 3349: Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return

• The WIYN Queue: Theory Meets Reality, T. A. Boroson, D. L. Harmer, A. Saha, P. S. Smith, D. W. Willmarth, and D. R. Silva (3349-05), (PostScript)

• New database for nighttime programs at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, C. A. Pilachowski and C. Brown (3349-37), (PostScript, PDF)

• Observing proposals on the Web at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, C. A. Pilachowski, J. Barnes, and D. J. Bell (3349-51), (PostScript)

• Flexible Observing Modes Employed at the WIYN Observatory, D. G. Sawyer, A. D. Code, J. W. Percival, and P. S. Smith (3349-57), (PostScript)

• Improvements to Science Operations at Kitt Peak National Observatory, B. Bohannan (3349-64), (PostScript, PDF)

• The Support Capability Requirements of 8m-Telescope Science, P. Puxley, T. Boroson, P. Roche, and J.-R. Roy (3349-50), (PostScript, PDF)

Conference 3350: Astronomical Interferometry

• Optical Telescopes and Enclosures for Ground Based Interferometry - The CHARA Array, S. T. Ridgway (3350-48)

• Active fringe tracking at the NPOI and the use of a priori information for post processing of interferometric data, J. A. Benson, D. Mozurkewich and S. M. Jefferies (3350-122)

Conference 3351: Telescope Control Systems III

• Network services for observation planning and execution, D. Mills (3351-36)

Conference 3352: Advanced Technology Optical/IR Telescope VI

• The SOAR Telescope Project: A Four-Meter Telescope Focused on Image Quality, T. A. Sebring, G. Cecil, and G. Moretto (3352-09), (PostScript, PDF)

• SOLIS - A modern facility for synoptic solar observations, C. U. Keller and NSO staff (3352-60), (Postscript, PDF)

• Fast tip-tilt secondary for the Blanco 4-m telescope, G. Pérez and R. Elston (3352-96)

• Design of a Large, Low-Scattered Light Telescope for Solar Observations, J. M. Beckers (3352-41)

• 4-M Off-Axis Telescope, G. Moretto and J. R. Kuhn (3352-87), (PostScript)

• Site Survey for a Large Solar Telescope, J. M. Beckers and J. Mason (3352-90)

Conference 3353: Adaptive Optical System Technologies

• Solar Adaptive Optics at NSO/SP, T. R. Rimmele (3353-08)

• Scientific Programs in Adaptive Optics - an Overview and Commentary, S. T. Ridgway (3353-87)

• WIYN Active Optics - A Platform for Adaptive Optics, A. Code, C. Claver, L. Goble, G. Jacoby, and D. Sawyer (3353-110)

• Deconvolving solar images using a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor, T. R. Rimmele (3353-64)

• An Iterative Deconvolution Algorithm for Post Processing of AO Images, S. M. Jefferies, J. C. Christou, M. Cheselka, and E. K. Hege (3353-66)

Conference 3354: Infrared Astronomical Instrumentation

• Performance of a novel tip-tilt secondary system on the Blanco 4-m telescope, R. G. Probst, P. Bouchet, G. Schumacher, and R. Schmidt (3354-74), (PostScript)

• Infrared Astronomical Spectroscopy with a Non-Cryogenic Spectrograph, R. R. Joyce, K. H. Hinkle, M. R. Meyer, and M. F. Skrutskie (3354-98), (PostScript)

• Phoenix: A Cryogenic High-Resolution 1-5 micron Infrared Spectrograph, K. H. Hinkle, R. Cuberly, N. Gaughan, J. Heynssens, R. Joyce, S. Ridgway, P. Schmitt, and J. E. Simmons (3354-107), (PostScript - no figures, PDF - no figures)

• Design of the Gemini near-infrared spectrometer, J. Elias, D. Vukobratovich, J. R. Andrew, M. K. Cho, R. W. Cuberly, K. Don, A. Gerzoff, C. F. Harmer, D. Harris, J. B. Heynssens, J. Hicks, A. Kovacs, C. Li, M. Liang, I. K. Moon, E. T. Pearson, G. Plum, N. A. Roddier, J. Tvedt, R. J. Wolff, W. Wong (3354-39)

• Design of a Grating Mechanism for a Near Infrared Spectrograph, W. Wong, R. W. Cuberly and J. R. Andrew (3354-117)

Conference 3355: Optical Astronomical Instrumentation

• Effect of Telecentric Use of Narrow-Band Imaging Filters on Diffraction Limited Imaging, J. M. Beckers (3355-61)

• CCD detector upgrade for NOAO's 8192 by 8192 MOSAIC, T. Wolfe, R. Reed, M. Blouke, T. Boroson, T. Armandroff, and G. Jacoby (3355-27)

• The NOAO Mosaic Data Handling System, D. Tody and F. G. Valdes (3355-28), (revised version of paper as PostScript, PDF)

• What is better than an 8192 x 8192 CCD Mosaic Imager? Two Mosaic Wide Field Imagers, one for KPNO and one for CTIO, G. P. Muller, R. Reed, T. Armandroff, T. Boroson, and G. Jacoby (3355-83), (PostScript)

• A New Wide-Field Corrector for the Kitt Peak Mayall 4-m Telescope, G. H. Jacoby, M. Liang, D. Vaughnn, R. Reed, and T. Armandroff (3355-98), (PostScript paper missing Figure 8, large .gz PS Figure 8 and PS caption for Figure 8)

• Integral Field Spectroscopy on the WIYN Telescope Using a Fiber Array, S. C. Barden, D. G Sawyer, and R. K. Honeycutt (3355-101), (PostScript)

• Volume-phase holograghic gratings and their potential for astronomical applications, S. C. Barden, J. A. Arns, and W. S. Colburn (3355-52), (PostScript)

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