Dr. Peter R. Gillingham Profile

Dr. Peter R. Gillingham

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Publications (67)

Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster + Paper

Optical design for Subaru Nasmyth Beam Switcher

Jessica Zheng, Nick Binos, Peter Gillingham, Helen McGregor, Scott Smedley, Jon Lawrence, Takashi Hattori, Yosuke Minowa, Olivier Guyon

Proceedings Volume 12182, 121823E (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629745

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Switches, Beam splitters, Tolerancing, Wavefronts, Optical design, Adaptive optics, Telescopes, Image quality, Spherical lenses

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster + Paper

Overall performance of AESOP: the 4MOST fibre positioner

Jurek Brzeski, David Adams, Gabriella Baker, Sufyan Baker, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Timothy Chin, Jack Coyne, Tony Farrell, Peter Gillingham, Ellen Houston, Urs Klauser, Yevgen Kripak, Nirmala Kunwar, Jon Lawrence, Slavko Mali, Wojtek Maslak, Helen McGregor, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Naveen Pai, Ellie O'brien, Will Saunders, Scott Smedley, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Lew Waller, Jahanzeb Zahoor, Jessica Zheng

Proceedings Volume 12184, 121846M (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2627900

KEYWORDS: Spine, Actuators, Fiber science, Telescopes, Tolerancing, Metrology, Galactic astronomy, Calibration, Assembly tolerances, Spectrographs

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster + Paper

AESOP, the 4MOST fibre positioner: engineering principles

Jurek Brzeski, Dave Adams, Gabriella Baker, Sufyan Baker, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Timothy Chin, Jack Coyne, Tony Farrell, James Gibson, Peter Gillingham, Ellen Houston, Urs Klauser, Yevgen Kripak, Nirmala Kunwar, Jon Lawrence, Slavko Mali, Wojtek Maslak, Helen McGregor, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Naveen Pai, Ellie O'brien, Will Saunders, Scott Smedley, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Lew Waller, Jahanzeb Zahoor, Jessica Zheng

Proceedings Volume 12184, 121846N (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2627903

KEYWORDS: Spine, Telescopes, Tolerancing, Assembly tolerances, Interfaces, Metrology, Kinematics, Assembly equipment, Sensors, Manufacturing

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

Conceptual design of the Keck Wide Field Imager (KWFI)

Matthew Radovan, Rob Bertz, Jeff Cooke, Richard Dekany, Alex Delacroix, Jason Fucik, Peter Gillingham, Shanti Krishnan, Gregory Poole, Ray Seikel, Roger Smith, Nao Suzuki, Tony Travouillon

Proceedings Volume 12184, 121840N (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630502

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Charge-coupled devices, Imaging systems, Electronics, CCD image sensors, Optical filters, Mirrors, Cameras, Interfaces

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

Innovations and advances in instrumentation at the W. M. Keck Observatory, vol. II

Marc Kassis, Steve Allen, Carlos Alvarez, Ravinder Banyal, Robert Bertz, Charles Beichman, Aaron Brown, Matthew Brown, Gerald Cabak, Kevin Bundy, Sylvain Cetre, Jason Chin, Mark Chun, Will Deich, Richard Dekany, Jacques Delorme, Mark Devenot, Greg Doppmann, Michael Fitzgerald, Jason Fucik, Grant Hill, Philip Hinz, Bradford Holden, Andrew Howard, Maodong Gao, Steve Gibson, Percy Gomez, Colby Gottschalk, Peter Gillingham, Tucker Jones, Nemanja Jovanovic, Evan Kirby, Quinn Konopacky, Shanti Krishnan, Renate Kupke, James Larkin, Stephanie Leifer, Hilton Lewis, Scott Lilley, Jessica Lu, James Lyke, Nick MacDonald, Eduardo Marin, Matt Matuszewski, Dimitri Mawet, Rosalie McGurk, Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer, Reston Nash, Craig Nance, James Neill, John O'Meara, Eliad Peretz, Claire Poppett, John Mather, Matthew Radovan, Mitsuko Roberts, Sam Ragland, Kodi Rider, Constance Rockosi, Dale Sandfor, Boqiang Shen, Charles Steidel, Sunil Simha, Andy Skemer, Deno Stelter, Avinash Surendran, James Thorne, Ben McCarney, Kyle Lanclos, Ashley Baker, Ryan Rubenzahl, Arpita Roy, Sam Halverson, Jerry Edelstein, Christopher Martin, Maureen Savage, Dale Sandford, Stephanie Sallum, Josh Walawender, Peter Wizinowich, Kyle Westfall, Kerry Vahala, Shelley Wright, Truman Wold, Sherry Yeh

Proceedings Volume 12184, 1218405 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628630

KEYWORDS: Adaptive optics, Spectrographs, Exoplanets, Sensors, Spectroscopy, Imaging systems, Telescopes, Planets, Cameras, Observatories

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

Hector: a new multi-object integral field spectrograph instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope

Julia Bryant, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jon Lawrence, Barnaby Norris, Seong-Sik Min, Rebecca Brown, Adeline Wang, Gurashish Singh Bhatia, Will Saunders, Robert Content, Ross Zhelem, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Mahesh Mohanan, Peter Gillingham, Robert Patterson, David Robertson, Naveen Pai, Helen McGregor, Jessica Zheng, Sam Vaughan, Caroline Foster, Sergio Leon-Saval, Scott Croom

Proceedings Volume 11447, 1144715 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560309

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Galactic astronomy, Telescopes, Iterated function systems, Robotics, Environmental sensing, Stars, Spectral resolution, Kinematics, Prototyping

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

MSE acquisition and guider system focal plane hardware conceptual design

Peter Gillingham, Derrick Salmon, Nicolas Flagey, Kei Szeto, Richard Murowinski, Will Saunders

Proceedings Volume 11445, 1144548 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561086

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Stars, Imaging systems, Fiber science, Control systems, Sensors, Metrology

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Paper

The MANIFEST pre-concept design

J. Lawrence, S. Ben-Ami, A. Braulio, M. Colless, A. Contos, D. DePoy, D. Faes, P. Gillingham, M. Goodwin, E. Houston, K. Kuehn, C. Lacombe, N. Lorente, S. Mali, J. Marshall, H. McGregor, R. Millan-Gabet, V. Nichani, V. Neves Hartmann, E. O'Brien, C. Oliveira, H. Ortolan, P. Pires, R. Ribeiro, W. Saunders, L. Schmidt, A. Souza, A. Szentgyorgyi, L. Waller, T. Zafar, J. Zheng

Proceedings Volume 11447, 1144728 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563238

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectrographs, Field spectroscopy, Spectral resolution, Prototyping, Optical instrument design, Optical fibers, Glasses, Robots, Galactic astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 3 January 2020 Paper

Novel metrology for tilting spine multi-fiber positioners

Peter Gillingham

Proceedings Volume 11203, 112031B (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2540990

KEYWORDS: Metrology, Spine, Cameras, Fiber science, Calibration, Light emitting diodes, Telescopes, Chromatic aberrations, Astronomical imaging, Astronomical telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 3 January 2020 Paper

A UV-visible prime focus camera for the Keck telescopes

Peter Gillingham, Jeff Cooke, Karl Glazebrook, Jeremy Mould, Roger Smith, Charles Steidel

Proceedings Volume 11203, 112030F (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2540717

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Cameras, Ultraviolet radiation, Computer aided design, Ultraviolet telescopes, Optical design, Silica, Optical components, Astronomical imaging, Lead

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Proceedings Article | 13 July 2018 Paper

Wide-field multi-object spectroscopy with MANIFEST

Jon Lawrence, Sagi Ben-Ami, David Brown, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Timothy Chin, Matthew Colless, Adam Contos, Darren Depoy, Ian Evans, Daniel Faes, Tony Farrell, Peter Gillingham, Michael Goodwin, Sungwook Hong, Narae Hwang, Wong-Seob Jeong, Urs Klauser, Kyler Kuehn, Nuria Lorente, Slavko Mali, Jennifer Marshall, Helen McGregor, Rolf Muller, Rafael Millan-Gabet, Vijay Nichani, Claudia Oliveria, Henrique Ortolan, naveen Pai, Sung-Joon Park, Travis Prochaska, Will Saunders, Luke Schmidt, Aline Souza, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Lew Waller, Ross Zhelem

Proceedings Volume 10702, 10702A6 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314178

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectrographs, Optical instrument design

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

Maunakea spectroscopic explorer (MSE): implementing systems engineering methodology for the development of a new facility

Kei Szeto, Alexis Hill, Nicolas Flagey, Calum Hervieu, Mick Edgar, Peter Gillingham, Alan McConachie, Shan Mignot, Richard Murowinski

Proceedings Volume 10705, 107050H (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314169

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Signal to noise ratio, Calibration, Telescopes, Spectrographs, Systems engineering, Point spread functions, Spectroscopy

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Paper

4MOST metrology system error analysis

Roland Winkler, Samuel Barden, Allar Saviauk, Steffen Frey, Nicolas Azais, Peter Gillingham, Scott Smedley

Proceedings Volume 10702, 1070286 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313522

KEYWORDS: Metrology, Cameras, Telescopes, Error analysis, Calibration, Device simulation, Imaging systems, Zemax, Image processing, Visualization

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Paper

Performance of the first production-ready actuators for the 4MOST-AESOP fiber positioner

Scott Smedley, Gabriella Baker, Sufyan Baker, Scott Case, Rebecca Brown, Jurek Brzeski, Peter Gillingham, Urs Klauser, Jon Lawrence, Slavko Mali, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Naveen Pai, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Lew Waller

Proceedings Volume 10702, 107027Z (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312863

KEYWORDS: Spine, Actuators, Connectors, Manufacturing, Tolerancing, Structured optical fibers, Calibration

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Proceedings Article | 8 July 2018 Paper

AESOP: the 4MOST fiber positioner

Jurek Brzeski, Gabriella Baker, Sufyan Baker, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Tony Farrell, Peter Gillingham, Urs Klauser, Jon Lawrence, Slavko Mali, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Naveen Pai, Scott Smedley, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Lew Waller

Proceedings Volume 10702, 1070279 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2310062

KEYWORDS: Kinematics, Actuators, Electronics, Tolerancing, Telescopes, Assembly tolerances, Adhesives

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

Hector: a modular integral field spectrograph instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope

Julia Bryant, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jon Lawrence, Will Saunders, Robert Content, Scott Croom, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Mahesh Mohanan, Rebecca Brown, Adeline Wang, Ross Zhelem, Peter Gillingham, Robert Patterson, Helen McGregor, Warrick Couch, Jesse van de Sande, Richard McDermid, Sergio Leon-Saval

Proceedings Volume 10702, 107021H (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309893

KEYWORDS: Galactic astronomy, Spectral resolution, Spectrographs, Kinematics, Telescopes, Ionization, Robotics, Astronomy

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Based on the success of the SAMI integral field spectrograph (IFS) instrument on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) the capacity for large IFS nearby galaxy surveys on the AAT is being substantially expanded with a new instrument called Hector. The high filling-fraction imaging fibre bundles ‘hexabundles’ of the type used on SAMI, are being enlarged to cover up to 30-arcsec diameter. The aim is to reach two effective radii on most galaxies, where the galaxy rotation curve flattens and >75% of the specific angular momentum of disk galaxies is accounted for. Driven by the key science case, Hector will have a 1.3A spectral resolution, enabling high-order stellar kinematics to be measured on a larger fraction of galaxies than with any other IFS instrument. Hector will be on sky in 2019. The first module of Hector, Hector-I, will have 21 hexabundles and >42 sky fibres to observe 20 galaxies and a calibration star simultaneously. It consists of new blue and red-arm spectrographs that have been designed at the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO; now called AAO-Macquarie), coupled to the new hexabundles and robotic positioner from AAO-USydney (formerly the Sydney Astrophotonics Instrumentation Laboratory, SAIL) at Sydney University. A novel robotic positioning concept will compensate for varying telecentricity over the 2-degree-field of the AAT to recoup the 20% loss in light at the edge of the field. Hector-I will survey 15,000 galaxies. Additional modules in the future would result in 30,000 galaxies. Hector will take integral field spectroscopy on galaxies with z<0.15 in the 4MOST WAVES-North and WAVES-South∗ regions. The WAVES data, which will come later, will give the environment metrics neces- sary to relate how local and global environments influence galaxy growth through gas accretion, star formation and spins measured with Hector. The WALLABY ASKAP† survey will trace HI gas across the Hector fields, which in combination with Hector will give a complete view of gas accretion and star formation.

Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Paper

Sphinx: a massively multiplexed fiber positioner for MSE

Scott Smedley, Gabriella Baker, Rebecca Brown, James Gilbert, Peter Gillingham, Will Saunders, Andrew Sheinis, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Lew Waller

Proceedings Volume 10702, 107021M (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2310021

KEYWORDS: Spine, Actuators, Metrology, Telescopes, Calibration

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

The AST3-NIR camera for the Kunlun Infrared Sky Survey

Jon Lawrence, Michael Ashley, Michael Burton, Xiangqun Cui, Vladimir Churilov, Robert Content, Peter Gillingham, Karl Glazebrook, Bozhong Gu, Michael Ireland, Xiang Jiang, Haiping Lu, Anna Moore, Jeremy Mould, Nicholas Staszak, Julia Tims, Peter Tuthill, Lifan Wang, Xiangyan Yuan, Kaiyuan Zhang, Ross Zhelem, Jessica Zheng

Proceedings Volume 9908, 990851 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233317

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Infrared radiation, Astronomy, Infrared astronomy, Cameras, Mirrors, Atmospheric modeling, Sensors, Optical filters, Optical instrument design

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

ULTIMATE: a deployable multiple integral field unit for Subaru

S. Ellis, Ross Zhelem, David Brown, Nicholas Staszak, Chris Lidman, David Nataf, Andrew Casey, Pascal Xavier, Andrew Sheinis, Peter Gillingham, Julia Tims, Jon Lawrence, Julia Bryant, Rob Sharp

Proceedings Volume 9908, 99081Q (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232107

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Space telescopes, Telescopes, Galactic astronomy, Microlens array, K band, Sensors, ZBLAN, Mirrors, Metrology

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Proceedings Article | 8 August 2016 Paper

Optical designs for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Telescope

Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham

Proceedings Volume 9906, 990638 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2234208

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectroscopy, Silica, Aspheric lenses, Vignetting, Image quality, Refraction, Glasses, Tolerancing, Distortion

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Proceedings Article | 8 August 2016 Paper

An all-silica three element wide-field corrector for GMT

Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, Sean Lin, Bob Woodruff, Andrew Rakich

Proceedings Volume 9906, 99063H (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2234468

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Aspheric lenses, Image quality, Silica, Vignetting, Lenses, Distortion, Refraction, Actuators, Colorimetry

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Proceedings Article | 4 August 2016 Paper

Hector: a new massively multiplexed IFU instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope

Julia Bryant, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jon Lawrence, Scott Croom, David Brown, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Peter Gillingham, Ross Zhelem, Robert Content, Will Saunders, Nicholas Staszak, Jesse van de Sande, Warrick Couch, Sergio Leon-Saval, Julia Tims, Richard McDermid, Adam Schaefer

Proceedings Volume 9908, 99081F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2230740

KEYWORDS: Galactic astronomy, Spectrographs, Telescopes, Stars, Kinematics, Iterated function systems, Cameras, Glasses, Mirrors, Aspheric lenses

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Proceedings Article | 27 July 2016 Paper

Maunakea spectroscopic explorer design development from feasibility concept to baseline design

Kei Szeto, Hau Bai, Steven Bauman, David Crampton, Nicolas Flagey, Mike Gedig, Peter Gillingham, Xuefei Gong, Kevin Ho, Nathan Loewen, Alan McConnachie, Shan Mignot, Richard Murowinski, Derrick Salmon, Will Saunders, Siegfried Stiemer, Tom Vermeulen, Kanoa Withington, Kai Zhang

Proceedings Volume 9906, 99062J (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2234213

KEYWORDS: Optical instrument design, Telescopes, Spectroscopy, Astronomical imaging, Spectrographs, Optical instrument design, Space telescopes, Computer aided design, Observatories, Control systems, Optical design

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Proceedings Article | 5 August 2014 Paper

Target allocation yields for massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys with fibers

Will Saunders, Scott Smedley, Peter Gillingham, Jaime Forero-Romero, Stephanie Jouvel, Brian Nord

Proceedings Volume 9150, 915023 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057299

KEYWORDS: Spine, Actuators, Galactic astronomy, Lawrencium, Algorithms, Multiplexing, Spectroscopy, Detection and tracking algorithms, Spectroscopes, Computer simulations

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Proceedings Article | 28 July 2014 Paper

Advances in the Echidna fiber-positioning technology

Andrew Sheinis, Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, Tony Farrell, Rolf Muller, Scott Smedley, Jurek Brzeski, Lewis Waller, James Gilbert, Greg Smith

Proceedings Volume 9151, 91511X (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057126

KEYWORDS: Spine, Actuators, Telescopes, Prototyping, Spectrographs, Point spread functions, Collimators, Optical fibers, Metrology, Cameras

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Proceedings Article | 24 July 2014 Paper

4MOST: 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope

Roelof de Jong, Sam Barden, Olga Bellido-Tirado, Joar Brynnel, Cristina Chiappini, Éric Depagne, Roger Haynes, Diana Johl, Daniel Phillips, Olivier Schnurr, Axel Schwope, Jakob Walcher, Svend Bauer, Gabriele Cescutti, Maria-Rosa Cioni, Frank Dionies, Harry Enke, Dionne Haynes, Andreas Kelz, Francisco Kitaura, Georg Lamer, Ivan Minchev, Volker Müller, Sebastián Nuza, Jean-Christophe Olaya, Tilmann Piffl, Emil Popow, Allar Saviauk, Matthias Steinmetz, Uğur Ural, Monica Valentini, Roland Winkler, Lutz Wisotzki, Wolfgang Ansorge, Manda Banerji, Eduardo Gonzalez Solares, Mike Irwin, Robert Kennicutt, David King, Richard McMahon, Sergey Koposov, Ian Parry, Xiaowei Sun, Nicholas Walton, Gert Finger, Olaf Iwert, Mirko Krumpe, Jean-Louis Lizon, Vincenzo Mainieri, Jean-Philippe Amans, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Matthieu Cohen, Patrick François, Pascal Jagourel, Shan Mignot, Frédéric Royer, Paola Sartoretti, Ralf Bender, Hans-Joachim Hess, Florian Lang-Bardl, Bernard Muschielok, Jörg Schlichter, Hans Böhringer, Thomas Boller, Angela Bongiorno, Marcella Brusa, Tom Dwelly, Andrea Merloni, Kirpal Nandra, Mara Salvato, Johannes Pragt, Ramón Navarro, Gerrit Gerlofsma, Ronald Roelfsema, Gavin Dalton, Kevin Middleton, Ian Tosh, Corrado Boeche, Elisabetta Caffau, Norbert Christlieb, Eva Grebel, Camilla Hansen, Andreas Koch, Hans-G. Ludwig, Holger Mandel, Andreas Quirrenbach, Luca Sbordone, Walter Seifert, Guido Thimm, Amina Helmi, Scott trager, Thomas Bensby, Sofia Feltzing, Gregory Ruchti, Bengt Edvardsson, Andreas Korn, Karin Lind, Wilfried Boland, Matthew Colless, Gabriella Frost, James Gilbert, Peter Gillingham, Jon Lawrence, Neville Legg, Will Saunders, Andrew Sheinis, Simon Driver, Aaron Robotham, Roland Bacon, Patrick Caillier, Johan Kosmalski, Florence Laurent, Johan Richard

Proceedings Volume 9147, 91470M (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055826

KEYWORDS: Galactic astronomy, Spectrographs, Telescopes, Stars, Spine, Spectroscopy, Spectroscopes, X-rays, Observatories, Calibration

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Proceedings Article | 24 July 2014 Paper

Towards a spectroscopic survey of one hundred thousand spatially resolved galaxies with Hector

Jon Lawrence, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, David Brown, Julia Bryant, Gerald Cecil, Robert Content, Scott Croom, Luke Gers, Peter Gillingham, Samuel Richards, Will Saunders, Nick Staszak

Proceedings Volume 9147, 91476Y (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055734

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Galactic astronomy, Sensors, Optical design, Cameras, Spherical lenses, Robots, Telescopes, Space telescopes, Imaging systems

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2014 Paper

Prime focus wide-field corrector designs with lossless atmospheric dispersion correction

Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, Greg Smith, Steve Kent, Peter Doel

Proceedings Volume 9151, 91511M (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055662

KEYWORDS: Lenses, Telescopes, Spectroscopy, Distortion, Atmospheric corrections, Imaging spectroscopy, Optical instrument design, Actuators, Aspheric lenses, Image quality

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2014 Paper

A wide field corrector with loss-less and purely passive atmospheric dispersion correction

Peter Gillingham, Will Saunders

Proceedings Volume 9151, 915161 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054707

KEYWORDS: Atmospheric corrections, Telescopes, Computer aided design, Glasses, Computer programming, Distortion, Stars, Atmospheric modeling, Lens design, Atmospheric optics

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Proceedings Article | 24 September 2012 Paper

Hector: a high-multiplex survey instrument for spatially resolved galaxy spectroscopy

Jon Lawrence, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Julia Bryant, Jurek Brzeski, Matthew Colless, Scott Croom, Luke Gers, James Gilbert, Peter Gillingham, Michael Goodwin, Jeroen Heijmans, Anthony Horton, Mike Ireland, Stan Miziarski, Will Saunders, Greg Smith

Proceedings Volume 8446, 844653 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925260

KEYWORDS: Galactic astronomy, Stars, Spectrographs, Telescopes, Microlens array, Spectroscopes, Microlens, Interfaces, Cameras, Galaxy groups and clusters

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Proceedings Article | 24 September 2012 Paper

A 3 degree prime focus field for the AAT

Peter Gillingham

Proceedings Volume 8446, 84466E (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925837

KEYWORDS: Chromatic aberrations, Telescopes, Spectrographs, Vignetting, Astronomy, Tolerancing, Optical design, Charge-coupled devices, Optical components, Colorimetry

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Proceedings Article | 13 September 2012 Paper

Multicore fibre Bragg grating developments for OH suppression

Seong-sik Min, Christopher Trinh, Sergio Leon-Saval, Nemanja Jovanovic, Peter Gillingham, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jon Lawrence, Tim Birks, Martin Roth, Roger Haynes, Lisa Fogarty

Proceedings Volume 8450, 84503L (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925791

KEYWORDS: Fiber Bragg gratings, Phase modulation, Single mode fibers, Infrared cameras, Ultraviolet radiation, Cladding, Cameras, Capillaries, Tunable lasers, Astrophotonics

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Proceedings Article | 20 July 2010 Paper

Cleaning the Southern African Large Telescope's M5 mirror

Lisa Crause, Hitesh Gajjar, Jonathan Love, Francois Strümpfer, James O'Connor, Darragh O'Donoghue, Ockert Strydom, David A. Buckley, Peter Gillingham

Proceedings Volume 7739, 77393Z (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856795

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Laser sintering, Telescopes, Reflectivity, Sodium, Optical coatings, Monochromatic aberrations, Inspection, Polymer thin films, Polymers

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Proceedings Article | 20 July 2010 Paper

ERASMUS-F: pathfinder for an E-ELT 3D instrumentation

Andreas Kelz, Martin Roth, Roland Bacon, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Harald Nicklas, Julia Bryant, Matthew Colless, Scott Croom, Simon Ellis, Andreas Fleischmann, Peter Gillingham, Roger Haynes, Andrew Hopkins, Johan Kosmalski, John O'Byrne, Jean-Christophe Olaya, William Rambold, Gordon Robertson

Proceedings Volume 7739, 77394N (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857007

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Image quality, Charge-coupled devices, Telescopes, Spectroscopes, Sensors, Astronomical imaging, Astronomy, Mechanical engineering, Space telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 20 July 2010 Paper

Hexabundles: imaging fibre arrays for low-light astronomical applications

Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Julia Bryant, Gordon Robertson, Peter Gillingham, John O'Byrne, Gerald Cecil, Roger Haynes, Scott Croom, Simon Ellis, Martin Maack, Peter Skovgaard, Danny Noordegraf

Proceedings Volume 7735, 773541 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856345

KEYWORDS: Cladding, Spectrographs, Etching, Astronomy, Telescopes, Glasses, Galactic astronomy, Polishing, Imaging arrays, Multimode fibers

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Proceedings Article | 19 July 2010 Paper

SALT segmented primary mirror: laboratory test results for FOGALE inductive edge sensors

John Menzies, Hitesh Gajjar, Sébastien Buous, David Buckley, Peter Gillingham

Proceedings Volume 7739, 77390X (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.859130

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Mirrors, Environmental sensing, Space telescopes, Telescopes, Current controlled current source, Large telescopes, Nanotechnology, Sensor technology, Sensing systems

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 2010 Paper

HERMES: revisions in the design for a high-resolution multi-element spectrograph for the AAT

Samuelk Barden, Damien Jones, Stuart Barnes, Jeroen Heijmans, Anthony Heng, Greg Knight, David Orr, Greg Smith, Vladimir Churilov, Jurek Brzeski, Lewis Waller, Keith Shortridge, Anthony Horton, Don Mayfield, Roger Haynes, Dionne Haynes, Denis Whittard, Michael Goodwin, Scott Smedley, Ian Saunders, Peter Gillingham, Ed Penny, Tony Farrell, Minh Vuong, Ron Heald, Steve Lee, Rolf Muller, Ken Freeman, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Daniel Zucker, Gayandhi De Silva

Proceedings Volume 7735, 773509 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856103

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Spectrographs, Beam splitters, Cameras, Stars, Relays, Calibration, Optical design, Control systems, Lamps

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Proceedings Article | 23 July 2008 Paper

Performance of Echidna fiber positioner for FMOS on Subaru

Masayuki Akiyama, Scott Smedley, Peter Gillingham, Jurek Brzeski, Tony Farrell, Masahiko Kimura, Rolf Muller, Naoyuki Tamura, Naruhisa Takato

Proceedings Volume 7018, 70182V (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788968

KEYWORDS: Spine, Distortion, Telescopes, Stars, Cameras, Spectrographs, Fiber science, Actuators, Calibration, Observatories

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Proceedings Article | 12 July 2008 Paper

Running PILOT: operational challenges and plans for an Antarctic Observatory

Andrew McGrath, Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, David Ward, John Storey, Jon Lawrence, Roger Haynes

Proceedings Volume 7016, 70160G (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788825

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Domes, Observatories, Data communications, Satellite communications, Power supplies, Satellites, Telecommunications, Astronomy, Wind turbine technology

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Proceedings Article | 11 July 2008 Paper

FMOS: the fiber multiple-object spectrograph: Part VI. Onboard performances and results of the engineering observations

Fumihide Iwamuro, Toshinori Maihara, Masayuki Akiyama, Masahiko Kimura, Naoyuki Tamura, Naruhisa Takato, Philip Tait, Kouji Ohta, Shigeru Eto, Yuuki Moritani, Gavin Dalton, Ian Lewis, Hanshin Lee, Ian A. Tosh, Tim Froud, Graham Murray, Colin Blackburn, David Bonfield, Peter Gillingham, Scott Smedley, Greg Smith, Gabriella Frost

Proceedings Volume 7014, 70140T (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.787746

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectrographs, Lenses, Stars, Sensors, Mirrors, Space telescopes, Infrared spectroscopy, Infrared radiation, Monochromatic aberrations

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Proceedings Article | 11 July 2008 Paper

AAOmicron: a wide-field near-infrared multi-object spectrograph concept for the AAT

Roger Haynes, Simon Ellis, Peter Gillingham, Anthony Horton, William Rambold, Greg Smith

Proceedings Volume 7014, 70143R (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788650

KEYWORDS: Optical fibers, Spectrographs, Sensors, Near infrared, Galactic astronomy, Cameras, Telescopes, Astronomical imaging, Near infrared spectroscopy, Radon

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Proceedings Article | 11 July 2008 Paper

Proposed instrumentation for PILOT

Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, Andrew McGrath, Roger Haynes, John Storey, Jon Lawrence, Michael Burton, Charles Jenkins, Alcione Mora

Proceedings Volume 7014, 70144N (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788858

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Sensors, Telescopes, Image quality, Stars, Near infrared, Mirrors, Optical imaging, Image resolution, Mid-IR

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2008 Paper

PILOT: a wide-field telescope for the Antarctic plateau

Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, Andrew McGrath, Roger Haynes, Jurek Brzeski, John Storey, Jon Lawrence

Proceedings Volume 7012, 70124F (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788651

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Mirrors, Domes, Image quality, Turbulence, Cameras, Optical instrument design, Infrared telescopes, Sensors, Humidity

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2006 Paper

It's alive! Performance and control of prototype Starbug actuators

Roger Haynes, Andrew McGrath, Jurek Brzeski, David Correll, Gabriella Frost, Peter Gillingham, Stan Miziarski, Rolf Muller, Scott Smedley

Proceedings Volume 6273, 62731V (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.670982

KEYWORDS: Prototyping, Actuators, Telescopes, Electronics, Control systems, Photography, Cryogenics, Infrared radiation, Spine, Metrology

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Proceedings Article | 28 June 2006 Paper

FMOS: the fiber multiple-object spectrograph IV: current status of OHS-based spectrograph

Fumihide Iwamuro, Toshinori Maihara, Kouji Ohta, Shigeru Eto, Michinari Sakai, Masayuki Akiyama, Masahiko Kimura, Naoyuki Tamura, Junichi Noumaru, Hiroshi Karoji, Gavin Dolton, Ian Lewis, Ian Tosh, Graham Murray, Nigel Dipper, David Robertoson, Peter Gillingham, Scott Smedley, Greg Smith, Gabriella Frost

Proceedings Volume 6269, 62691B (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671006

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Mirrors, Sensors, Cameras, Infrared radiation, Optical alignment, Actuators, Telescopes, Reflectivity, Temperature metrology

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Proceedings Article | 27 June 2006 Paper

HyperSuprime: project overview

Satoshi Miyazaki, Yutaka Komiyama, Hidehiko Nakaya, Yoshiyuki Doi, Hisanori Furusawa, Peter Gillingham, Yukiko Kamata, Kunio Takeshi, Kyoji Nariai

Proceedings Volume 6269, 62690B (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672739

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Charge-coupled devices, Galactic astronomy, Cameras, Image quality, Electronics, Actuators, Astronomy, Optical design, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

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