Daniel L. McKenna
California Institute of Technology
14 Papers
50 Citations
Daniel L. McKenna is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Adaptive optics & Deformable mirror. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 14 publications. Previous affiliations of Daniel L. McKenna include University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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Papers
Seeing at Mauna Kea: a joint UH-UN-NOAO-CFHT study
F. Roddier,Lennox L. Cowie,J. Elon Graves,Antoinette Songaila,Daniel L. McKenna,Jean Vernin,M. Azouit,J. L. Caccia,Eric J. Limburg,Claude Roddier,Derrick Salmon,Stephane Beland,David Cowley,S. Hill +13 more
- 01 Jul 1990
TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed coordinated measurements to determine the various contributions to image degradation on Mauna Kea during two short campaigns, and some of the results already obtained are presented here.
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A population of heavily reddened, optically missed novae from Palomar Gattini-IR: Constraints on the Galactic nova rate
Kaushik De,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Matthew J. Hankins,Jennifer L. Sokoloski,Scott M. Adams,Michael C. B. Ashley,A. Babul,Ashot Bagdasaryan,Alexandre Delacroix,Richard Dekany,Timothee Greffe,David Hale,Jacob Jencson,Viraj Karambelkar,Ryan M. Lau,Ashish Mahabal,Daniel L. McKenna,Anna M. Moore,Eran O. Ofek,Manasi Sharma,Roger M. H. Smith,J. Soon,Roberto Soria,Gokul P. Srinivasaragavan,Samaporn Tinyanont,Tony Travouillon,Anastasios Tzanidakis,Yuhan Yao +27 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a systematic sample of 12 spectroscopically confirmed Galactic novae detected in the first 17 months of Palomar Gattini-IR (PGIR), a wide-field near-infrared time domain survey.
A Close Companion Search around L Dwarfs using Aperture Masking Interferometry and Palomar Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
David Bernat,Antonin Bouchez,Michael J. Ireland,Peter G. Tuthill,Frantz Martinache,John Angione,Rick Burruss,John Cromer,Richard Dekany,Stephen R. Guiwits,John Henning,J. Hickey,Edward J. Kibblewhite,Edward J. Kibblewhite,Daniel L. McKenna,Anna M. Moore,Harold L. Petrie,Jennifer E. Roberts,J. Chris Shelton,Robert P. Thicksten,Thang Trinh,Renu Tripathi,Mitchell Troy,Tuan Truong,Viswa Velur,James P. Lloyd +25 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a close companion search around sixteen known early-L dwarfs using aperture masking interferometry with Palomar laser guide star adaptive optics.
Palomar Gattini-IR: Survey overview, data processing system, on-sky performance and first results.
Kaushik De,Matthew J. Hankins,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Anna M. Moore,Eran O. Ofek,Scott M. Adams,Michael C. B. Ashley,A. Babul,Ashot Bagdasaryan,Kevin Burdge,Jill Burnham,Richard Dekany,Alexander Declacroix,Antony Galla,Tim Greffe,David Hale,Jacob Jencson,Ryan M. Lau,Ashish Mahabal,Daniel L. McKenna,Manasi Sharma,Patrick L. Shopbell,Roger M. H. Smith,J. Soon,Jennifer L. Sokoloski,Roberto Soria,Tony Travouillon +26 more
TL;DR: Palomar Gattini-IR is probing the reddest and dustiest transients in the local universe such as dust obscured supernovae in nearby galaxies, novae behind large columns of extinction within the galaxy, reddened micro-lensing events in the Galactic plane and variability from cool and dust obscured stars.
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University of Hawaii adaptive optics system: I. General approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the adaptive optics system was developed to sharpen images produced by telescopes at Mauna Kea, and an approach based on new components developed and optimized for astronomical applications was described.
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