Session 18. Instrumentation for Infrared and Optical Observing

Poster, Monday, January 6, 2003, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall AB

18.01 Design and Calibration of a Near IR Adaptive Optics Imaging Polarimeter for Lick Observatory

M. Perrin, J. Lloyd, P. Kalas, J. R. Graham (UC Berkeley Astronomy Department)

18.02 Cryogenic temperature tunable solid Fabry-Perot spectrometer for the near-IR.

A.S. Kutyrev (SSAI/NASA/GSFC), C.L. Bennett, S.H. Moseley (NASA's GSFC), D.A. Rapchun (GST/GSFC/NASA), K. Stewart (NRL)

18.03 A New, Nanotechnology Process for Making Precise Infrared Filters using Layered Metal Mesh Grids

H. A. Smith, O. Sternberg (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. Fischer, M. Rebbert, K. Stewart, B. Hicks (NRL), M. Greenhouse (NASA GSFC)

18.04 A Point-Source Near Infrared Spectrograph for the Apache Point 3.5-m Telescope

A. Uomoto, R. Barkhouser, S. Smee (JHU)

18.05 Apache Point Observatory's All-Sky Camera: Observing Clouds in the Thermal Infrared

K. S. J. Anderson, J. Brinkmann (NMSU and Apache Point Observatory), M. Carr (Princeton University), D. Woods (NMSU and Apache Point Observatory), D. P. Finkbeiner, J. E. Gunn (Princeton University), C. L. Loomis (NMSU and Apache Point Observatory), D. Schlegel (Princeton University), S. Snedden (NMSU and Apache Point Observatory)

18.06 A Medium-Resolution Spectrograph for the CHARA Optical/IR Interferometer

T. C. Hillwig, W. G. Bagnuolo (Georgia State Univ.), R. L. Riddle (Iowa State Univ.)

18.07U Design and Construction of Calibration Equipment for Cryogenic Thermal Sensors

R. Cool (U Wyoming), E. Silver (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

18.08 An Aluminum Secondary Mirror for the SOFIA Telescope

E. F. Erickson, N. Kunz, C. A. Brivkalns (NASA Ames), T. M. Brown (USRA), M. Honaker (Orbital Sciences Corp.)

18.09 Surface Layer Turbulence Measurements

P. Zimmer, J. T. McGraw (Univ. of New Mexico), M. R. Ackermann (Sandia National Laboratory)

18.10 Magdalen Ridge Observatory: post Preliminary Design Review

M. L. Cobb (New Mexico Tech and Southeast Missouri State University)

18.11U A Graphical User Interface for the University of Wyoming's 2.3-m Telescope

R. Mallery (University of Missouri-Rolla), M.J. Pierce, H.A. Nations (University of Wyoming)

18.12 Stellar Crowding and the Science Case for Extremely Large Telescopes

K.A.G. Olsen, R.D. Blum (NOAO), F. Rigaut (Gemini Observatory)

18.13 Seeing the Universe in 3D: First Demonstration Science Results from CIRPASS and GMOS on Gemini Integral Field Spectrographs

A.J. Bunker, J.K. Smith (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK), R.G. Bower (Department of Physics, Durham, UK), Cambridge CIRPASS Team, Durham/Gemini-Observatory GMOS Team

18.14 Externally Dispersed Interferometry with the Lick Observatory Echelle Spectrograph

D.J. Erskine (Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab), J Edelstein (Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley)

18.15 The radial velocity precision possible with a fiber-fed spectrograph

G. Walker, E. Shkolnik (UBC), D. Bohlender (HIA), S. Yang (UVic)