Mr. Etienne L. Simon Profile

Etienne L. Simon

Sr Instrument and Electronic Technician at SAAO/SALT

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Presentation + Paper

Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) instrumentation update

Lisa Crause, Marsha Wolf, Matthew Bershady, Michael Smith, Joshua Oppor, Moses Mogotsi, Richard McCracken, Yuk Shan Cheng, Daniel Holdsworth, Willem van der Westhuizen, Etienne Simon, Malcolm Scarrott, Derryck Reid, Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay, Craig Sass, Kurt Jaehnig, Jeff Percival, Ralf Kotulla, Anthony Koeslag, Enrico Kotze, Janus Brink, Deon Lategan, David A. Buckley, Lee Townsend, John Menzies, Kathryn Rosie, Rosalind Skelton, Danièl Groenewald, Eben Wiid, Nico van der Merwe, Melanie Saayman, Alexei Kniazev, Rudi Kuhn, Tasheen Naicker, Roufurd Julie, Encarni Romero Colmenero, Paul Rabe

Proceedings Volume 13096, 1309607 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018784

KEYWORDS: Equipment, Spectrographs, Telescopes, Calibration, Collimators, Cameras, Design, Near infrared, Large telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

Towards precision radial velocity science with SALT’s High-Resolution Spectrograph

Lisa Crause, Alexei Kniazev, R. Paul Butler, Rudi Kuhn, Arpita Roy, Keith Browne, Alrin Christians, Etienne Simon, Anthony Koeslag, Jonathan Love, Roufurd Julie

Proceedings Volume 11447, 1144746 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562004

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Exoplanets, Iodine cells, Calibration, Absorption, Laser development, Large telescopes, Lawrencium, Stars, Iodine

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

SALT integrated safety management system

Etienne Simon, Johannes Coetzee, Keith R. Browne, Eben Wiid, Theodore Williams

Proceedings Volume 10704, 1070424 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313471

KEYWORDS: Safety, Telescopes, Injuries, Inspection, System integration, Control systems, Space telescopes, Surgery, Observatories, Safety equipment

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Paper

Observing in higher humidity

Eben Wiid, Keith Browne, Jonathan Love, J. Christiaan Coetzee, Thabelo Makananise, Paul Rabe, Etienne Simon, Johan Hendricks

Proceedings Volume 10704, 1070429 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312481

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Humidity, Temperature metrology, Calibration, Objectives, Inspection, Mirrors, Safety

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

Commissioning the dual etalon Fabry-Perot modes of the Robert Stobie spectrograph on the Southern African Large Telescope

T. Williams, E. Romero-Colmenero, P. Vaisanen, K. Browne, T. Makananise, A. Koeslag, C. Hettlage, E. Wiid, E. Simon, M. Smith, C. Pietraszewski

Proceedings Volume 9908, 99086N (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232674

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Lawrencium, Spectral resolution, Imaging systems, Fabry–Perot interferometers, Imaging spectroscopy, Received signal strength, Large telescopes, Galactic astronomy, Collimation

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