Dr. Christopher Davison Profile

Dr. Christopher Davison

at Durham Univ

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Proceedings Article | 30 August 2024 Open Access

The Blue Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (BlueMUSE) on the VLT: science drivers and overview of instrument design (Erratum)

Johan Richard, Rémi Giroud, Florence Laurent, Davor Krajnović, Alexandre Jeanneau, Roland Bacon, Manuel Abreu, Angela Adamo, Ricardo Araujo, Nicolas Bouché, Jarle Brinchmann, Zhemin Cai, Norberto Castro, Ariadna Calcines, Diane Chapuis, Adélaïde Claeyssens, Luca Cortese, Emanuele Daddi, Christopher Davison, Michael Goodwin, Robert Harris, Matthew Hayes, Mathilde Jauzac, Andreas Kelz, Jean-Paul Kneib, Audrey Lanotte, Jonathon Lawrence, Vianney Le Bouteillier, Remy Lebreton, Matthew Lehnert, Angel Lopez Sanchez, Helen McGregor, Anna McLeod, Manuel Monteiro, Simon Morris, Cyrielle Opitom, Arlette Pécontal, Martin Roth, David Robertson, Jesse van de Sande, Russell Smith, Matthias Steinmetz, Mark Swinbank, Tanya Urrutia, Anne Verhamme, Peter Weilbacher, Martin Wendt, François Wildi, Jessica Zheng

Proceedings Volume 13096, 13096AK (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3049794

KEYWORDS: Spectroscopes, Equipment, Design, Observational astronomy, Observatories, Extragalactic astronomy, Astronomical telescopes, Astronomical imaging

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Proceedings Article | 27 August 2024 Poster + Paper

MOSAIC GLAO performance and system architecture: AO for the entire ELT focal plane

Nazim Ali Bharmal, Timothy Morris, Timothy Butterley, Polly Gill, Jürgen Schmoll, Noah Schwartz, David Bramall, Christopher Davison, Jay Stephan, Raziye Artan, Phil Parr-Burman, R. Pello, M. Puech, E. Prieto, M. Rodrigues, R. Sanchez-Janssen, G. Dalton, F. Ducret, K. El Hadi, M. García-Vargas, J. Lynn

Proceedings Volume 13097, 130974Z (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019113

KEYWORDS: Design, Adaptive optics, Equipment, Sensors, Wavefront sensors, Telescopes, Point spread functions, Imaging systems, Stars, Distortion

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Poster + Paper

Cryogenic testing of the integrated Ariel space telescope: design of the optical test equipment

Robert Spry, Manuel Abreu, Keith Nowicki, Neil Bowles, Maisie Rashman, Cédric Pereira, Jake Hutchinson, David Miguel Ventura de Castro Alves, Rory Evans, Robert Watkins, Waqas Mir, John-Paul Walker, Ioannis Argyriou, Joss Guy, Juergen Schmoll, Chris Davison, Henry Eshbaugh, Alexandre Cabral, Rachel Drummond, Lucile Desjonqueres, Mark Anderson, Georgia Bishop, Paul Eccleston, Enzo Pascale, Andrew Caldwell, Giovanna Tinetti

Proceedings Volume 13092, 130924V (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020185

KEYWORDS: Light sources and illumination, Mirrors, Cryogenics, Monochromators, Design, Optical spheres, Sensors, Vacuum chambers, Calibration, Optical alignment

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Presentation + Paper

The Blue Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (BlueMUSE) on the VLT: science drivers and overview of instrument design

Johan Richard, Rémi Giroud, Florence Laurent, Davor Krajnović, Alexandre Jeanneau, Roland Bacon, Manuel Abreu, Angela Adamo, Ricardo Araujo, Nicolas Bouché, Jarle Brinchmann, Zhemin Cai, Norberto Castro, Ariadna Calcines, Diane Chapuis, Adélaïde Claeyssens, Luca Cortese, Emanuele Daddi, Christopher Davison, Michael Goodwin, Robert Harris, Matthew Hayes, Mathilde Jauzac, Andreas Kelz, Jean-Paul Kneib, Audrey Lanotte, Jon Lawrence, Vianney Le Bouteillier, Rémy Le Breton, Matthew Lehnert, Angel Lopez Sanchez, Helen McGregor, Anna McLeod, Manuel Monteiro, Simon Morris, Cyrielle Opitom, Arlette Pécontal, Martin Roth, David Robertson, Jesse van de Sande, Russel Smith, Matthias Steinmetz, Mark Swinbank, Tanya Urrutia, Anne Verhamme, Peter Weilbacher, Martin Wendt, François Wildi, Jessica Zheng

Proceedings Volume 13096, 1309622 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019831

KEYWORDS: Galactic astronomy, Equipment, Stars, Design, Sensors, Spectrographs, Spectral resolution, Kinematics, Image quality

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Presentation + Paper

MOSAIC at the ELT: a unique instrument for the largest ground-based telescope

Roser Pelló, Mathieu Puech, Éric Prieto, Myriam Rodrigues, Rubén Sanchez-Janssen, Gavin Dalton, Franck Ducret, Kacem El Hadi, María García-Vargas, Jeff Lynn, Nazim Bharmal, Diane Chapuis, Michel Dupieux, Clément Hottier, Marie Larrieu, Laurent Martin, Meghna Mohamed, Tim Morris, Ana Pérez, Walter Seifert, Wenli Xu, Simon Morris, Lex Kaper, Jesús Gallego, Jose Afonso, Beatriz Barbuy, Thierry Contini, Alexis Finoguenov, Susan Kassin, Christopher Miller, Göran Ostlin, Laura Pentericci, Daniel Schaerer, Matthias Steinmetz, Bodo Ziegler, Ricardo Araujo, Joar Brynnel, Bruno Castilho, Christopher Conselice, Nick Cvetojevic, Christopher Davison, Julien Dejonghe, Mirka Dessauges-Zavadsky, Kjetil Dohlen, Décio Ferreira, Armando Gil de Paz, Thiago Gonçalves, Isabelle Guinouard, Matthew Hayes, Derek Ives, Annemieke Janssen, Carol Kehrig, Andreas Kelz, Davor Krajnović, Audrey Lanotte, Nicolas Laporte, Philippe Laporte, Soren Larsen, Bertran Lemasle, Ian Lewis, Jiang-Tao Li, Elena Pancino, Matthew Pieri, Christian Surace, Markus Thurneysen, Susanna Vergani, François Wildi, Fernando Álvarez Moreno, Raziye Artan, Mathilde Beaulieu, Eva Besada, Arjan Bik, Charlotte Bond, Mohamed Bouri, Jérémie Boy, David Bramall, Sarah Brands, Antonio Braulio, Tim Butterley, Cristina Cabello, Marina Calero de Ory, Rocio Calvo, Africa Castillo Morales, Zalpha Challita, Stephen Chittik, Andrés Curto Maldonado, Fátima De Frontat, Elfi Dijkstra, Eddy Elswijk, Gilles Fasola, Carmen Feiz, Fabio Fialho, Johan Floriot, Paolo Franzetti, Marco Fumana, Luis Gabarra, Lia Garcia, Adriana Gargiulo, Julien Gaudemard, Domenico Giannone, Polly Gill, Alicia Gomez-Gutierrez, Carole Gouvret, Alan Guenther, Douglas Harvey, José Miguel Ibáñez Mengual, Jorge Iglesias, Yevgeniy Ivanisenko, Peter Kunst, Sander Kwast, Kieran Leschinski, Gianluca Licausi, Sebastiano Ligori, Juan Antonio López Orozco, Adam Lowe, Mike Macintosh, Héctor Magan, Manuel Maldonado, Thomas Marquart, Lucimara Martins, Marisole Melara, Jens Melinder, Jeannet Molema, David Montgomery, María Morales, Francisco Najarro, Nicolas Nardetto, Ramon Navarro, Antoine Ottomani, Tony Pamplona, Cyril Pannetier, Phil Parr-Burman, Sergio Pascual, María Peñataro, Isabel Pérez Grande, Jan Rinze Peterzon, Javier Piqueras, Nicolai Piskunov, Ramon Rodriguez Cardoso, Sergio Rodriguez Venzal, Rick Romp, Hossein Rostami, Frédéric Royer, Daniel Sablowski, Ainhoa Sanchez, Ernesto Sánchez Blanco, Ellen Schalling, Jurgen Schmoll, Noah Schwartz, Jay Stephan, Sylvestre Taburet, David Terrett, Ignacio Torralbo, Niels Tromp, Gerardo Veredas, Yanbin Yang, Alec York, Werner Zeilinger

Proceedings Volume 13096, 1309615 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019047

KEYWORDS: Equipment, Galactic astronomy, Spectrographs, Near infrared, Spectral resolution, Telescopes, Stars, James Webb Space Telescope, Design, Extragalactic astronomy

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