Session 5. Ground Based Instruments and Surveys

Display, Monday, June 4, 2001, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

5.01 RYTSI: A New Way to do Speckle Imaging

E. P. Horch, Z. Ninkov (RIT), R. D. Meyer, W. F. van Altena (Yale U.)

5.02 A Digital Motion Control System for Large Telescopes

T.R. Hunter, R.W. Wilson, R. Kimberk, P.S. Leiker (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO))

5.03 Status of the Steward Observatory 90-Inch Prime Focus Instrument

G. G. Williams, E. Olszewski, M. Lesser, J. Burge (Steward Observatory), Steward Observatory 90-Prime Team

5.04 The AIRES Optical Design

M. R. Haas (NASA-Ames)

5.05 SAFIRE: A Far-Infrared Imaging Spectrometer for SOFIA

R.A. Shafer (NASA / GSFC), D.J. Benford (NASA / GSFC & Raytheon/ITSS), S.H. Moseley (NASA / GSFC), F. Pajot (IAS), G.J. Stacey (Cornell), J.G. Staguhn (NASA / GSFC & Raytheon/ITSS)

5.06 Early Results from TNTCAM2, a Mid-IR Imaging Polarimeter, and Remote Internet Observing

D. S. Theil, M. E. Edwards, C. A. Jurgenson, D. I. Klebe, R. E. Stencel (University of Denver, Department of Physics and Astronomy), J. L. Cash, R. T. Martin, P. E. Johnson, J. S. Weger (University of Wyoming,)

5.07 RIVMOS - Rapid Infrared-Visible Multi-Object Spectrometer

A.S. Kutyrev (Raytheon ITSS/NASA/GSFC), K.A. Blumenstock, A. Crites, B. Dean (NASA/GSFC), R.K. Fettig (Raytheon ITSS/NASA/GSFC), J. Ge (Penn State University), C. Hakun, S.H. Moseley, D.B. Mott, D.S. Schwinger, B.E. Woodgate (NASA/GSFC)

5.08 SuperCam: A 10 x 10 Superheterodyne Camera for the Prime Focus of the Large Binocular Telescope

C.E. Groppi, C.Y. Drouet d'Aubigny, C.K. Walker, C.A. Kulesa, J.M. Hill (Steward Observatory), G. Chin (NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center), C. Timoc (Spaceborne Inc.)

5.09 SHARC II, a Second Generation 350 Micron Camera for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory

C. D. Dowell, W. Collins, M. Gardner, A. Kovacs, D. C. Lis, T. G. Phillips, H. Yoshida (California Institute of Technology), C. Allen, M. Jhabvala, S. H. Moseley, Jr., G. Voellmer (NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center)

5.10 FIBRE: A Broadband Submillimeter Spectrometer using Transition Edge Sensor Bolometers with SQUID multiplexer readout

J. Staguhn (NASA/GSFC, Raytheon ITSS), D.J. Benford (NASA/GSFC, Raytheon ITSS), S.A. Khan (Imperial, NASA/GSFC), B. Maffei (QMWC), S.H. Moseley (NASA/GSFC), F. Pajot (IAS), T.G. Phillips (Caltech), C. Rioux (IAS), R.A. Shafer (NASA/GSFC)

5.11 67,000,000 Pixels at a Snap: The MDM 8K CCD Imager

A.P.S. Crotts (Columbia University)

5.12 Research Programs at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute

J. D. Cline, M. W. Castelaz, C. Osborne (Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute), D. A. Moffett (Furman University), M. Lopez-Morales (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

5.13 The Faint Sky Variability Survey: Searching for Low-Luminosity Cataclysmic Variables and Very Low-Mass Dwarfs

M. E. Huber, S. B. Howell (Astrophysics Group, PSI)

5.14 First results from a Mark IV Camera

M. Richmond (RIT), TASS Collaboration

5.15 The VLBA Calibrator Survey

A.J. Beasley (Caltech Owens Valley Radio Observatory), D.G. Gordon (Raytheon ITSS & NASA/GSFC), E.B. Fomalont (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), A. Peck (Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie), C. Ma (NASA/GSFC), L. Petrov (NVI Inc. & NASA/GSFC)