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Overview of the Instrumentation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
B. Abareshi, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +264
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has embarked on an ambitious five-year survey to explore the nature of dark energy with spectroscopy of 40 million galaxies and quas…
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) Survey Design, Reductions, and Detections
Karl Gebhardt, Erin Mentuch Cooper, Robin Ciardullo +60
We describe the survey design, calibration, commissioning, and emission-line detection algorithms for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). The goal of HETDEX…
The HETDEX Instrumentation: Hobby-Eberly Telescope Wide Field Upgrade and VIRUS
Gary J. Hill, Hanshin Lee, Phillip J. MacQueen +46
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is undertaking a blind wide-field low-resolution spectroscopic survey of 540 square degrees of sky to identify and…
The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library
D. S. Aguado, Romina Ahumada, Andres Almeida +230
Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years o…
Marvin: A Toolkit for Streamlined Access and Visualization of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Data Set
Brian Cherinka, Brett H. Andrews, José Sánchez-Gallego +11
The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, one of three core programs of the fourth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV), is producing a massi…
SDSS-IV MaStar -- A Large and Comprehensive Empirical Stellar Spectral Library: First Release
Renbin Yan, Yanping Chen, Daniel Lazarz +45
We present the first release of the MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar), which is a large, well-calibrated, high-quality empirical library covering the wavelength range of 3,622-10,354A…
Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: prototype design and testing
Maren Cosens, Jérôme Maire, Shelley A. Wright +12
The Pulsed All-sky Near-infrared Optical Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (PANOSETI) is an instrument program that aims to search for fast transient signals (nano-second to…
The Keck Cosmic Web Imager Integral Field Spectrograph
Patrick Morrissey, Matuesz Matuszewski, D. Christopher Martin +36
We report on the design and performance of the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI), a general purpose optical integral field spectrograph that has been installed at the Nasmyth port of t…
ProtoDESI: First On-Sky Technology Demonstration for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
Parker Fagrelius, Behzad Abareshi, Lori Allen +33
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is under construction to measure the expansion history of the universe using the baryon acoustic oscillations technique. The spectra…
Data Reduction with the MIKE Spectrometer
Rebecca A. Bernstein, Scott M. Burles, J. Xavier Prochaska
This manuscript describes the design, usage, and data-reduction pipeline developed for the Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle (MIKE) spectrometer used with the Magellan telescope at…
APF - The Lick Observatory Automated Planet Finder
Steven S. Vogt, Matthew Radovan, Robert Kibrick +45
The Automated Planet Finder (APF) is a facility purpose-built for the discovery and characterization of extrasolar planets through high-cadence Doppler velocimetry of the reflex ba…
FIRST, a fibered aperture masking instrument II. Spectroscopy of the Capella binary system at the diffraction limit
E. Huby, G. Duchêne, F. Marchis +7
FIRST is a prototype instrument built to demonstrate the capabilities of the pupil remapping technique, using single-mode fibers and working at visible wavelengths. We report on ob…
The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment
Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff, Carlos Allende Prieto +232
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the tenth public data release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This da…
Production of Phase Screens for Simulation of Atmospheric Turbulence
Rachel Rampy, Don Gavel, Daren Dillon +1
The ability to simulate atmospheric turbulence in the lab is a crucial part of testing and developing astronomical adaptive optics technology. We report on the development of a tec…
The Multi-Object, Fiber-Fed Spectrographs for SDSS and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
Stephen Smee, James E. Gunn, Alan Uomoto +61
We present the design and performance of the multi-object fiber spectrographs for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and their upgrade for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Sur…
The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
III Collaboration, Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff +224
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS…
An Algorithm for Preferential Selection of Spectroscopic Targets in LEGUE
Jeffrey L. Carlin, Sebastien Lepine, Heidi Jo Newberg +22
We describe a general target selection algorithm that is applicable to any survey in which the number of available candidates is much larger than the number of objects to be observ…
FIRST, a fibered aperture masking instrument. I. First on-sky test results
E. Huby, G. Perrin, F. Marchis +12
In this paper we present the first on-sky results with the fibered aperture masking instrument FIRST. Its principle relies on the combination of spatial filtering and aperture mask…
The Colloquium on Decoupling Civil Timekeeping from Earth Rotation
John H. Seago, Robert L. Seaman, Steven L. Allen
On October 5 and October 6, 2011, the Colloquium on the Decoupling Civil Timekeeping from Earth Rotation was hosted in Exton, Pennsylvania by Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI). This…
Performance of MEMS-based visible-light adaptive optics at Lick Observatory: Closed- and open-loop control
Katie Morzinski, Luke C. Johnson, Donald T. Gavel +4
At the University of California's Lick Observatory, we have implemented an on-sky testbed for next-generation adaptive optics (AO) technologies. The Visible-Light Laser Guidestar E…
The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: Instrument Overview
James E. Larkin, Anna M. Moore, Elizabeth J. Barton +16
We present an overview of the design of IRIS, an infrared (0.85 - 2.5 micron) integral field spectrograph and imaging camera for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). With extremely lo…
MASE: A New Data--Reduction Pipeline for the Magellan Echellette Spectrograph
John J. Bochanski, Joseph F. Hennawi, Robert A. Simcoe +7
We introduce a data reduction package written in Interactive Data Language (IDL) for the Magellan Echellete Spectrograph (MAGE). MAGE is a medium-resolution (R ~4100), cross-disper…
A New Solution for the Dispersive Element in Astronomical Spectrographs
Harland W. Epps, Judith G. Cohen, J. Christopher Clemens
We present a new solution for the dispersive element in astronomical spectrographs, which in many cases can provide an upgrade path to enhance the spectral resolution of existing m…
Stroke saturation on a MEMS deformable mirror for woofer-tweeter adaptive optics
Katie Morzinski, Bruce Macintosh, Donald Gavel +1
High-contrast imaging of extrasolar planet candidates around a main-sequence star has recently been realized from the ground using current adaptive optics (AO) systems. Advancing s…