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most citedCharacterizing the Adaptive Optics Off-Axis Point-Spread Function - I: A Semi-Empirical Method for Use in Natural-Guide-Star Observations

24 citations · 57 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

astro-ph.HE2025★ 11 cited

Seeing the Outer Edge of the Infant Type Ia Supernova 2024epr in the Optical and Near Infrared

W. B. Hoogendam, D. O. Jones, C. Ashall +30

We present optical-to-near-infrared (NIR) photometry and spectroscopy of the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2024epr, including NIR spectra observed within two days of first light. The e…

astro-ph.HE2022

Modeling Supernovae as an Optically Thick Fireball

Jacob Marshall, Scott Severson

We calculate the properties of 135 stellar supernovae using data from the Open Supernova Catalog. We generate temperatures, radii, luminosities, and expansion velocities using a sp…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 1 cited

KAPAO: a MEMS-based natural guide star adaptive optics system

Scott A. Severson, Philip I. Choi, Daniel S. Contreras +10

We describe KAPAO, our project to develop and deploy a low-cost, remote-access, natural guide star adaptive optics (AO) system for the Pomona College Table Mountain Observatory (TM…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 4 cited

MEMS practice, from the lab to the telescope

Katie M. Morzinski, Andrew P. Norton, Julia Wilhelmson Evans +8

Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology can provide for deformable mirrors (DMs) with excellent performance within a favorable economy of scale. Large MEMS-based astrono…

physics.ed-ph2011

The Adaptive Optics Summer School Laboratory Activities

S. Mark Ammons, Scott Severson, J. D. Armstrong +17

Adaptive Optics (AO) is a new and rapidly expanding field of instrumentation, yet astronomers, vision scientists, and general AO practitioners are largely unfamiliar with the root…

physics.ed-ph2010

The CfAO's Astronomy Course in COSMOS: Curriculum Design, Rationale, and Application

Kathy L. Cooksey, Scott Seagroves, Jason Porter +3

From 2001 to 2007, COSMOS provided a teaching and outreach venue for the Center for Adaptive Optics Professional Development Program (CfAO PDP). COSMOS is a four-week residential m…