Staff Publications

AURA staff members have taken an active interest in developing design concepts for ELT's, and they have contributed to many technical papers on the subject. Below is a list of some of these papers and articles

2009

• Schöck M., Els S., Riddle R., Skidmore W., Travouillon T., Blum R., Bustos E., Chanan G., Djorgovski S.G., Gillett P., Gregory B., Nelson J., Otárola A., Seguel J., Vasquez J., Walker A., Walker D., Wang L., “Thirty Meter Telescope Site Testing I: Overview” 2009, PASP, (in press).
• Els S.G., Travouillon T., Schöck M., Riddle R., Skidmore W., Seguel J., Bustos E., Walker D., “Thirty Meter Telescope Site Testing VI: Turbulence Profiles” 2009, PASP, (in press).
• Els S., Schöck M., Travouillon T., Riddle R., Skidmore W., “The ground layer as seen by MASS and DIMM and its relation to micrometeorology”, 2009, Proceedings of Optical Turbulence — Astronomy meets Meteorology, Masciadri E. & Sarazin M., Imperial College Press, (in press).
• Travouillon T., Els S., Schöck M., Riddle R., Skidmore W., “Understanding the ground layer turbulence of the TMT sites”, 2009, Proceedings of Optical Turbulence — Astronomy meets Meteorology, Masciadri E. & Sarazin M., Imperial College Press, (in press).
• Schöck M., Els S., Riddle R., Skidmore W., Travouillon T., “Site selection survey: calibration and results”, 2009, Proceedings of Optical Turbulence — Astronomy meets Meteorology, Masciadri E. & Sarazin M., Imperial College Press, (in press).
• Cuevas O., Cure M., Chacón A., Els S., Schöck M., Riddle R., Skidmore W., Travouillon T., “Meteorological study of an event of occurrence of optical turbulence at the TMT candidate sites”, 2009, Proceedings of Optical Turbulence — Astronomy meets Meteorology, Masciadri E. & Sarazin M., Imperial College Press, (in press).

2008

“SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation: Synergies Between Ground and Space”
June 23-28, 2008
Marseille, France.
(Submitted Papers)

• “The Multi Aperture Scintillation Sensor (MASS) used in the site selection of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).” S. Els, M. Schoeck, J. Seguel, W. Skidmore, D. Walker, A. Tokovinin, V. Kornilov, R. Riddle, T. Travouillon, E. Bustos, J. Vasquez, R. Blum, B. Gregory, P. Gillett.
• “Temporal Variability of the seeing at the TMT candidate sites” T. Travouillon, S. Els, R. L. Riddle, M. Schoeck, A. W. Skidmore, E. Bustos, J. Seguel, D. Walker, J. Vasquez, R. Blum, P. Gillett, B. Gregory
• “Status of the Thirty Meter Telescope Site Selection Program.” Matthias Schoeck, Sebastian Els, Reed Riddle, Warren Skidmore, Tony Travouillon, Robert Blum, Edison Bustos, Paul Gillett, Brooke Gregory, Jerry Nelson, Juan Seguel, Joselino Vasquez, Konstantinos Vogiatzis, David Walker, Lianqi Wang.
• “An Analysis of Light Pollution at the Thirty Meter Telescope Candidate Sites.” Reed L. Riddle, David Walker, Matthias Schoeck, Sebastian Els, Warren Skidmore, Tony Travouillon, Edison Bustos, Juan Seguel, Joselino Vasquez, Robert Blum, Paul Gillett, Brooke Gregory.
• “Using All Sky Cameras to determine cloud statistics for the Thirty Meter Telescope candidate sites.” Warren Skidmore, Matthias Schoeck, Eugene Magnier, David Walker, Reed Riddle, Sebastian Els, Tony Travouillon, Edison Bustos, Juan Seguel, Joselino Vasquez, Robert Blum, Paul Gillett, Brooke Gregory.
• “Performance Prediction of the TMT Secondary Mirror Support System.” Myung K. Cho.
• “Performance Prediction of the TMT Tertiary Mirror Support System.” Myung K. Cho.
• “Thermal Performance Prediction of the TMT Optics.” Myung Cho, Andrew Corredor, Shane Pootrakul, Konstantinos Vogiatzis, George Angeli.

Prior Years:

• 2006
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001
• 2000
• 1999
• 1998

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