activity
20092021
most citedThirty Meter Telescope Site Testing I: Overview

120 citations · 183 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

6 papers

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

The InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: photometric characterization of anisoplanatic PSFs and testing of PSF-Reconstruction via AIROPA

Nils Rundquist, Shelley A. Wright, Matthias Schoeck +16

The InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a first-light instrument for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) that will be used to sample the corrected adaptive optics field by the Nar…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 7 cited

Flowdown of the TMT astrometry error budget(s) to the IRIS design

Matthias Schoeck, David Andersen, John Rogers +9

TMT has defined the accuracy to be achieved for both absolute and differential astrometry in its top-level requirements documents. Because of the complexities of different types of…

astro-ph.IM2011

Lessons learned from the TMT site testing campaign

T. Travouillon, S. G. Els, R. L. Riddle +2

After a site testing campaign spanning 5 sites over a period of 5 years, the site selection for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) culminated with the choice of Mauna Kea 13N in Hawa…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 15 cited

Four years of optical turbulence monitoring at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO)

S. G. Els, M. Schoeck, E. Bustos +7

The optical turbulence conditions as measured between 2004 until end of 2008 above Cerro Tololo, their seasonal as well as nocturnal behavior are presented. A comparison with the M…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 38 cited

Thirty Meter Telescope Site Testing VI: Turbulence Profiles

S. G. Els, T. Travouillon, M. Schoeck +5

The results on the vertical distribution of optical turbulence above the five mountains which were investigated by the site testing for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) are reporte…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 120 cited

Thirty Meter Telescope Site Testing I: Overview

M. Schoeck, S. Els, R. Riddle +15

As part of the conceptual and preliminary design processes of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), the TMT site testing team has spent the last five years measuring the atmospheric pr…