David Cowley
University of California, Santa Cruz
15 Papers
53 Citations
David Cowley is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Cruz. The author has contributed to research in topics: Telescope & Spectrograph. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 15 publications.
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Papers
The low-resolution imaging spectrograph red channel CCD upgrade: fully depleted, high-resistivity CCDs for Keck
C. M. Rockosi,R. Stover,Robert I. Kibrick,Chris Lockwood,Michael Peck,David Cowley,Michael Bolte,Sean M. Adkins,Barry Alcott,Steve Allen,B. Brown,Gerald Cabak,Deich W,Hilyard D,Kassis M,Lanclos K,Lewis J,Pfister T,Phillips A,Robinson L,Saylor M,Thompson M,Ward J,Wei M,Wright C +24 more
TL;DR: A mosaic of two 2k x 4k fully depleted, high resistivity CCD detectors was installed in the red channel of the Keck-I Telescope in June, 2009 replacing a monolithic Tektronix/SITe 2k 2k CCD as discussed by the authors.
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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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Keck Planet Finder: preliminary design
Steven R. Gibson,Andrew W. Howard,Andrew W. Howard,Arpita Roy,Christopher D. Smith,Samuel Halverson,Samuel Halverson,Jerry Edelstein,M. Kassis,Edward H. Wishnow,Michael Raffanti,Steve Allen,Jason C. Y. Chin,David W. Coutts,David Cowley,James Curtis,William Deich,Tobias Feger,Daniel Finstad,Daniel Finstad,Y. V. Gurevich,Yuzo Ishikawa,Yuzo Ishikawa,Ean James,Elisha Jhoti,Elisha Jhoti,Kyle Lanclos,Scott Lilley,Tim Miller,Steve Milner,Tom Payne,Tom Payne,Kodi Rider,Constance M. Rockosi,Dale Sandford,Christian Schwab,Andreas Seifahrt,Martin M. Sirk,Roger Smith,Julian Stuermer,Marie Weisfeiler,Mavourneen Wilcox,Adam Vandenberg,Peter Wizinowich +43 more
- 06 Jul 2018
TL;DR: The W.M. Keck Planet Finder (KPF) as mentioned in this paper is a fiber-fed, high resolution, high-stability spectrometer in development for the Keck Observatory.
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Commissioning ShARCS: the Shane adaptive optics infrared camera-spectrograph for the Lick Observatory Shane 3-m telescope
Rosalie C. McGurk,Constance M. Rockosi,Donald T. Gavel,Renate Kupke,Michael Peck,Terry Pfister,Jim Ward,William Deich,John Gates,Elinor L. Gates,Barry Alcott,David Cowley,Daren Dillon,Kyle Lanclos,Dale Sandford,Mike Saylor,Srikar Srinath,Jason Weiss,Andrew Norton +18 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the design and first-light early science performance of the Shane Adaptive optics infraRed Camera- Spectrograph (ShARCS) on Lick Observatory's 3m Shane telescope.
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DEIMOS: a wide-field faint-object spectrograph
David Cowley,Sandra M. Faber,David F. Hilyard,Eric C. James,Jack Osborne +4 more
- 21 Mar 1997
TL;DR: The DEIMOS project as mentioned in this paper is a dual beam, off axis, multi object spectrograph of medium resolution, being designed for the Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
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