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Mawson, Neil R. "Small telescopes installed at the Liverpool Telescope." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604296.

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The Small Telescopes Installed at the Liverpool Telescope (STILT) have been in operation since March 2009, collecting wide field data from their position, at the Liverpool Telescope on La Palma. The system consists of a set of two wide field imaging cameras, known as SkycamT and SkycamZ. They provide fields of view of 21x210 and Ix 1 0, along with limits of 12th and 18th in R-band magnitude. The work in this thesis describes the methodology used to create an image analysis pipeline and database to store the photometric results contained in the images produced by these cameras. Such a database

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Vaksdal, Birger. "Medium Size Telescopes in the Cherenkov Telescope Array." Thesis, KTH, Fysik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-210238.

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Fernández, Barral Alba. "Extreme particle acceleration in microquasar jets and pulsar wind nebulae with the MAGIC telescopes." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/457715.

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A lo largo de toda nuestra historia, los seres humanos nos hemos esforzado por descifrar los misterios con los que el Universo nos desafía. En nuestros humildes comienzos, esta tarea era realizada con nuestros ojos desnudos, mirando las estrellas y los planetas y preguntándonos qué tan lejos estaban y cómo se movían en el cielo nocturno. Durante muchos siglos, sólo el Universo visible fue accesible para nosotros, pero se obtuvieron logros extraordinarios a pesar de las limitadas herramientas: descubrimos, por ejemplo, que nuestro planeta no era el centro del Universo, gracias a las obse

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Witzemann, Amadeus. "Cosmology with next generation radio telescopes." University of the Western Cape, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6936.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD<br>The next generation of radio telescopes will revolutionize cosmology by providing large three-dimensional surveys of the universe. This work presents forecasts using the technique 21cm intensity mapping (IM) combined with results from the cosmic microwave background, or mock data of galaxy surveys. First, we discuss prospects of constraining curvature independently of the dark energy (DE) model, finding that the radio instrument HIRAX will reach percent-level accuracy even when an arbitrary DE equation of state is assumed. This is followed by a study of the

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O'Dougherty, Stefan, and Stefan O'Dougherty. "Quasi-Optical Spherical Balloon Telescopes." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626762.

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Astronomy constantly pushes the limits of technology in order to decipher the workings of the Universe. There is a constant need for higher resolution observations across a wide range of wavelengths, at preferably a minimal cost. The terahertz regime (lambda=100 um to lambda=1000 um) covers a region of the electromagnetic spectrum that is blocked by Earth's atmosphere, which limits observations to high altitude plane and balloon telescopes and space telescopes. These current options limit the resolution achievable due to the size of telescopes that can be launched. This dissertation investigat

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Bou, Cabo Manuel. "Acoustics for underwater neutrino telescopes." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/10989.

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En esta tesis se tratan diferentes aspectos de la acústica presente en un telescopio submarino de neutrinos, principalmente en dos vertientes: en el sistema de posicionamiento acústico utilizado para la monitorización de las posiciones de los módulos ópticos presentes a lo largo del detector, así como en sistemas para detección acústica de neutrinos, técnica que actualmente está en fase de estudio. Todos los estudios realizados están enmarcados dentro de dos colaboraciones europeas para el diseño, construcción y operación de telescopios submarinos de neutrinos: Antares (en fase de operación)

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Kern, Pierre. "Optique adaptative et grands telescopes." Paris 7, 1990. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00714946.

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Severement limite par la turbulence atmospherique, les grands telescopes au sol ne sont pas capables d'atteindre leur limite de resolution intrinseque de maniere directe. En fonctionnement normal, ils ne peuvent pas resoudre plus de details, aux longueurs d'ondes du visible et du proche infrarouge qu'un telescope de quelques decimetres de diametre. La technique d'optique adaptative decrite ici, offre l'avantage sur les autres techniques, d'un traitement du front d'onde avant la detection du signal. Lorsque la detection n'est pas limitee par le bruit propre du signal incident ce traitement perm

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Petrushevska, Tanja. "Supernovae seen through gravitational telescopes." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Fysikum, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-141633.

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Galaxies, and clusters of galaxies, can act as gravitational lenses and magnify the light of objects behind them. The effect enables observations of very distant supernovae, that otherwise would be too faint to be detected by existing telescopes, and allows studies of the frequency and properties of these rare phenomena when the universe was young. Under the right circumstances, multiple images of the lensed supernovae can be observed, and due to the variable nature of the objects, the difference between the arrival times of the images can be measured. Since the images have taken different pat

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Andersen, Geoff. "Holographic correction of aberrated telescopes /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09pha544.pdf.

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Thrall, Michael L. "Orbit determination of highly eccentric orbits using a RAVEN telescope." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Sep%5FThrall.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Space Systems Operations)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2005.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Kyle T. Alfriend, Don A. Danielson. Includes bibliographical references (p. 33). Also available online.

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Gibson, Bradley Kenneth. "An experimental 2.7 meter liquid mirror telescope." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29030.

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A 2.7-meter Liquid Mirror Telescope (LMT) is currently under construction at the University of British Columbia. The stationary, parabolic primary mirror is formed by uniformly rotating the highly reflective liquid, metallic mercury. Compensation for the lack of mechanical tracking will be accomplished by using the Time Delay and Integrate (TDI) readout technique with our Ford 2048 x 2048 CCD detector. The ability to produce large, diffraction-limited mirrors in the laboratory has been previously demonstrated; this project, the first of its kind, is an investigation into their potential for as

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Долгушев, М. "Телескоп". Thesis, Сумский государственный университет, 2014. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/38880.

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Современную астрономию невозможно представить без зрительных труб (телескопов). Уже Галилей, первым применивший зрительную трубу для наблюдения небесных тел, сделал ряд важных открытий. Хотя его телескоп обладал увеличением всего в 30 раз и с нашей точки зрения давал весьма плохое качество изображения. Современные телескопы имеют огромные размеры и представляют собой весьма сложное сооружение.

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McWhirter, P. R. "An automated pipeline for variability detection and classification for the Small Telescopes Installed at the Liverpool Telescope." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2018. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/9479/.

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The Small Telescopes at the Liverpool Telescope (STILT) is an almost decade old project to install a number of wide field optical instruments to the Liverpool Telescope, named Skycams, to monitor weather conditions and yield useful photometry on bright astronomical sources. The motivation behind this thesis is the development of algorithms and techniques which can automatically exploit the data generated during the first 1200 days of Skycam operation to catalogue variable sources in the La Palma sky. A previously developed pipeline reduces the Skycam images and produces photometric time-series

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Campbell, Michael Aloysius. "Adaptive optic demonstrators for extremely large telescopes." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5046.

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The next generation of ground-based optical/infrared (IR) telescopes will have primary mirrors of up to 42 m. To take advantage of the large potential increase in angular resolution, adaptive optics will be essential to overcome the resolution limits set by atmospheric turbulence. Novel techniques such as Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) and Multi-Object Adaptive Optics (MOAO) are being developed to achieve near diffraction-limited images over large fields-of-view. This thesis concerns the development of MCAO and MOAO pathfinders. Specifically, the construction of CANARY, aMOAO demonstra

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Shaw, Simon Edward. "Gamma/hadron discrimination using composite Cherenkov telescopes." Thesis, Durham University, 1999. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4356/.

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The Durham University Mk6 Ground Based Gamma Ray Telescope is a sensitive detector in the Very High Energy (VHE) band (~100GeV-10TeV). It is a 'composite' Cherenkov telescope consisting of three 42m(^2) mirrors, each of which is viewed by a Cherenkov photon detector. Together the three detectors provide the basis for a sophisticated coincidence trigger that gives the telescope its low energy threshold of ~300GeV. Analysis of high resolution Cherenkov images from the central detector allows gamma rays to be identified from the hadronic background. The Left and Right detectors also record two in

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D'Cruze, Michael. "Spectral line surveys with Jodrell Bank telescopes." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/spectral-line-surveys-with-jodrell-bank-telescopes(2b862077-3d7a-4b17-8eba-6880ce2dbfac).html.

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Spectral line observations are of vital importance in astrophysics. Hydrogen recombination lines are a uniquely powerful tracer of ionised gas in the Galaxy, and of star formation and gas kinematics in other galaxies. Improvements in receiver performance at ~GHz frequencies has generated renewed interest in recombination lines from other galaxies. The 76m Lovell Telescope should be sensitive enough to detect recombination lines from new galaxies in 10-100 hrs. Jodrell Bank Observatory has been without a dedicated spectral line backend for more than 15 years. The advancement of digital technolo

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Foley, Edward L. "A Rotating Aperture Mask for Small Telescopes." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2019. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/2105.

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Observing the dynamic interaction between stars and their close stellar neighbors is key to establishing the stars’ orbits, masses, and other properties. Our ability to visually discriminate nearby stars is limited by the power of our telescopes, posing a challenge to astronomers at small observatories that contribute to binary star surveys. Masks placed at the telescope aperture promise to augment the resolving power of telescopes of all sizes, but many of these masks must be manually and repetitively reoriented about the optical axis to achieve their full benefits. This paper introduces a de

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Avgitas, Theodoros. "Optical Module studies for underwater neutrino telescopes." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCC268.

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Un banc test, composé d’ une cuve à eau et d’ un hodoscope, a été optimisé et utilisé pour la caractérisation des Modules Optiques (OMs) des expériences ANTARES et KM3NeT. La comparaison entre le flux attendu de muons atmosphériques et le flux mesuré a permis l’ estimation de l’ efficacité de l’ hodoscope.Dans un premier temps, des mesures effectuées avec un OM ANTARES ont permis de valider le système d’ acquisition et de caractériser l’ étalonnage temporel du banc test. Un Module Optique Digital (DOM) a ensuite pu être installé dans la cuve pour être testé. De nombreux points cruciaux pour le

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Dituri, Joseph. "Ballistic missile trajectory estimation." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/06Dec%5FDituri.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Astronautical Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2006.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Kyle T. Alfriend, Don A. Danielson. "December 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 57). Also available in print.

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Lew, Alfie Katat 1960. "Astrometric telescope simulator for the design and development of telescope teleoperation." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276844.

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A real-time discrete-event simulation model is built to emulate the functional operations of the Thaw telescope of the Allegheny Observatory and its attached scientific instrument. The OASIS software system is used to communicate with the simulation model. This simulation model, written in Ada, consists of three major parts. The Command Receiver and the Data Transmitter are software written to service the incoming telecommands and outgoing telemetry, the Command Processor is the actual simulator itself consisting of a Command Retriever, a Scanner, a Parser, a Command Interpreter, and the actua

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Martin, H. M., J. H. Burge, J. M. Davis, et al. "Status of mirror segment production for the Giant Magellan Telescope." SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622425.

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The Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona is responsible for production of the eight 8.4 m segments for the primary mirror of the Giant Magellan Telescope, including one spare off-axis segment. We report on the successful casting of Segment 4, the center segment. Prior to generating the optical surface of Segment 2, we carried out a major upgrade of our 8.4 m Large Optical Generator. The upgrade includes new hardware and software to improve accuracy, safety, reliability and ease of use. We are currently carrying out an upgrade of our 8.4 m polishing machine that includes imp

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Mountfort, Peter Ian. "The observation of extended sources with the Hartebeesthoek radio telescope." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005265.

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The Hartebeesthoek Radio Telescope is well suited to mapping large areas of sky at 2.3 GHz because of the stability and sensitivity of the noise-adding radiometer (Nicolson, 1970) and cryogenic amplifier used at this frequency, the relatively large 20' beam of the 26 m dish antenna, and its high-speed drive capability. Telescope control programs were written for the Observatory's online computer for automated mapping. Effort centred on removing the curved baseline or 'background' from each Declination (Dec) scan, due to atmospheric and ground radiation contributions varying as the antenna is s

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Rees, David Jon. "Progress in the active development of large optics for astronomy." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339738.

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Mullerworth, Stephen Derek. "Position sensitive detectors for hard X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386646.

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He, Zhong. "Gamma ray imaging detectors." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239633.

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Leung, Martin. "A wideband feed for a cylindrical radio telescope." Phd thesis, School of Physics, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5005.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008.<br>Includes graphs and tables. Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Physics, Faculty of Science. Bibliography: p. 196-203. Also available in print form.

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Cheng, Andrew Yuk Sun. "DESIGN ASPECTS OF FUTURE VERY LARGE TELESCOPES (HONEYCOMB MIRRORS)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183998.

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Research has been carried out on three major difficulties in designing efficient and economic telescopes with 8m f/1 lightweight mirrors. These problems are polishing f/1 aspherics, thermal distortion of borosilicate glass mirror and mirror seeing. Viable solutions to all three have been developed. Solving the fundamental problems allows future very large telescopes to use such mirrors as the basic elements in the design which will reduce the cost. Accurate mirror figure together with good pointing stability given by the short focal length will enable the telescope to form images as sharp as t

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Brown, Matthew Ross. "Generalized quadrangles and associated structures /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb879.pdf.

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Picazzi, Valeria. "Il progetto di telescopio a tasselli di Guido Horn d’Arturo: forefather of the new generation multi-mirror telescopes." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/12829/.

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In this thesis we want to acknowledge one of the topics developed in his vast work by Guido Horn d’Arturo, the Director of the Bologna University Astronomical Observatory for large part of the 20th century. The topic addressed is of great international relevance in astronomy, even if it is unknown to most researchers. This thesis wants to be an in-depth analysis of the work started in 1999 for the inauguration of the new location of the Department of Astronomy and, mostly, the dedication of the Library to Guido Horn d’Arturo. A booklet printed in that occasion collects the most important paper

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Lombardi, Saverio. "Development of analysis tools for the MAGIC Telescopes and observation of the Segue 1 Satellite Galaxy with MAGIC-I Telescope." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3421561.

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The work presented in this Thesis has been carried out for the MAGIC experiment during three years of PhD student-ship at the University of Padova, Department of Physics G. Galilei, in association with the Padova section of National Institute of Nuclear Physics (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, INFN), under the supervision of Professor M. Mariotti, PhD Michele Doro and PhD Villi Scalzotto. The two MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov) telescopes, located in the Canary Island of La Palma (Spain), are a stereoscopic system based on the IAC (Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov) t

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Benli, Ozturk Esra. "A Practical Alignment Algorithm For Cassegrain Type Telescopes." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614573/index.pdf.

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Focal plane corrected Cassegrain type optical systems have been widely used in various fields. The axial alignment of complex optical systems is not easy and a practical alignment method is needed for such systems. Tilts, decenters and axial motion of elements or group of elements in the system are the typical alignment parameters. Interferometric measurement is an effective way to see the errors caused by the misalignment of each element in an optical system. In this thesis, alignment of a Cassegrain type telescope will be examined by using interferometric measurements and modulation transfer

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Alaluf, David. "Piezoelectric Mirrors for Adaptive Optics in Space Telescopes." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/240866.

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Future generations of space-based telescopes will require increasingly large primary reflectors, with very tight optical-quality tolerances. However, as their size grow, it becomes more and more difficult to meet the requirements, due to the manufacturing complexity and the associated costs. Chapters 2 and 3 propose two concepts of Adaptive Optics deformable mirrors, intended to be used as secondary corrector to compensate for manufacturing errors, gravity release and thermal distortion of large lightweight primary mirrors of space telescopes: (i) A scalable segmented bimorph mirror, based on

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Lentz, Joshua K. "Perceptual image quality of launch vehicle imaging telescopes." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4963.

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A large fleet (in the hundreds) of high quality telescopes are used for tracking and imaging of launch vehicles during ascent from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center. A maintenance tool has been development for use with these telescopes. The tool requires rankings of telescope condition in terms of the ability to generate useful imagery. It is thus a case of ranking telescope conditions on the basis of the perceptual image quality of their imagery. Perceptual image quality metrics that are well-correlated to observer opinions of image quality have been available for seve

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Dunlop, Colin Nigel. "The imaging properties of large reflecting astronomical telescopes." Thesis, Durham University, 1986. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7019/.

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This thesis is concerned with some of the limitations concerned with the imaging properties of astronomical telescopes of large apertures. These arise from the atmosphere, the diffracting aperture, the residual errors in the optically worked surfaces and the characteristics of the detection devices. Methods of Fourier optics are used to determine modulation transfer functions and associated point spread function. They are applied to three problems. The first of these is a comparison of the diffraction patterns that are expected from the multi-mirror telescopes. These are made either of separat

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Jupp, Ian David. "The optimisation of discrete pixel code aperture telescopes." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243190.

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Haniff, Christopher Allim. "High-resolution imaging with ground-based optical telescopes." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238537.

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Adams, Elisabeth Rose. "Transit timing with fast cameras on large telescopes." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59737.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2010.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-178).<br>Timing and system parameters were measured for seven transiting exoplanets: OGLETR- 56b (11 transits), OGLE-TR-132b (7), OGLE-TR-111b (6), OGLE-TR-113b (6), CoRoT-2b (3), OGLE-TR-10b (3), and XO-2b (2). Ground-based observations of 38 transits were made using three new frame-transfer instruments: POETS and MagICe2v on the 6.5m Magellan telescopes, and MORIS on the 3m IRTF. For each pla

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Lounsbury, William P. "Nonlinear Multi-Mode Robust Control For Small Telescopes." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1417781523.

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Busuttil, Richard. "Investigating exoplanets and transients using small-aperture telescopes." Thesis, Open University, 2017. http://oro.open.ac.uk/49860/.

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This work characterises PIRATE’s primary camera, the SBIG STX-16803, as well as assessing the usefulness and impact of a small-aperture semi-autonomous facility in Mallorca for exoplanet studies and studies of transient sources. Additionally, a method for exploring the Roche lobe of an exoplanet and the effects this has on the shape and density of the planet is also described. PIRATE is a small aperture photometric facility that can be operated remotely or autonomously, is constructed from commercially available hardware and utilised by The Open University for research, education and outreach.

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BERTI, ALESSIO. "Study of astrophysical transients with the MAGIC telescopes." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Trieste, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2918672.

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This PhD work is focused on the study of transient sources, astrophysical events exhibiting short-time scale variability. In particular, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and Gravitational Waves (GWs) counterparts were searched using the data of the MAGIC telescopes, two Cherenkov telescopes detecting gamma-rays in the energy range 50 GeV-10 TeV (very high energies, VHE) thanks to the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique. GRBs are the most violent sources in the Universe, releasing a huge amount of energy in few seconds. They are characterized by a prompt emission, where the bulk of photons in the

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Johnston, Peter J. "Astronomers and the Hubble space telescope : an historical analysis /." Thesis, This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01312009-063039/.

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Wong, Oiwei Ivy. "Star formation and galaxy evolution of the local universe based on HIPASS /." Connect to thesis, 2007. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00004069.

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Pepper, Joshua Aaron. "KELT the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1179852674.

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Bastaits, Renaud. "Extremely large segmented mirrors: dynamics, control and scale effects." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210122.

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All future Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) will be segmented. However, as their size grows, they become increasingly sensitive to external disturbances, such as gravity, wind and temperature gradients and to internal vibration sources. Maintaining their optical quality will rely more and more on active control means. This thesis studies active optics of segmented primary mirrors, which aims at stabilizing the shape and ensuring the continuity of the surface formed by the segments in the face of external disturbances.<p><p>The modelling and the control strategy for active optics of segmented

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Carter, Tony. "The development of small CsI(Tl)-photodiode detectors for gamma-ray astronomy." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.294502.

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Seeds, Michael A. "THE ATIS INSTRUCTION SET FOR COMMUNICATION WITH ROBOTIC ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/607396.

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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 27-30, 1997 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada<br>Astronomers now communicate over Internet with robotic astronomical telescopes using a specially designed instruction set. ATIS, Automatic Telescope Instruction Set, is designed to communicate specific, technical instructions to a robotic telescope, facilitate data retrieval and analysis, support a wide range of data formats, and also convey preference information that describe the astronomers general needs for data acquisition. Over a dozen telescopes now us

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Rao, Yong. "The astronomical observation system of 12" telescope : its automatic control system and astronomical application /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1877698X.

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Gears, Richard T. "A distributed control system for the St Andrews twin photometric telescope." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14057.

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Many astronomers require large amounts of observational data to solve astrophysical problems and to validate theoretical hypotheses. It is therefore imperative that both the observer and telescope work efficiently, maximising data collection whilst minimising object selection and acquisition time. One method in which this can be achieved is through telescope automation. The advent of cheap integrated process controllers enables the system designer to realise novel control system architectures which were previously prohibitive to all but the largest of sites. This thesis reviews the development

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Hicks, Brian Andrew. "Nulling interferometers for space-based high-contrast visible imaging and measurement of exoplanetary environments." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/32883.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>This dissertation presents the legacy, theory, design, characterization, and application prospects of a fully symmetric monolithic nulling interferometer (nuller). A nuller's function is to destructively inte

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Lee, David. "New techniques in astronomical spectroscopy for 8-m telescopes." Thesis, Durham University, 1998. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4847/.

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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate new instrument technology to enhance the capabilities of 8-m telescopes. This thesis first describes the theory, design, construction, and testing of an immersed grating. Immersed gratings can be used to provide R≥ 10(^4) with a multi-object and/or integral field spectrograph on an 8-m telescope. Immersed gratings allow high resolution to be achieved whilst maintaining the required pupil size at a level similar to that on 4-m telescopes. This thesis describes laboratory tests which verify that immersed gratings provide high resolution. The throughpu

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