Erik Hinrichsen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11 Papers
22 Citations
Erik Hinrichsen is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Robotic telescope & Telescope. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 8 publications.
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The wide-field infrared transient explorer (WINTER).
Nathan P. Lourie,John W. Baker,Richard S. Burruss,Mark Egan,Gábor Fűrész,Danielle Frostig,Allan A. Garcia-Zych,Nicolae Ganciu,Kari Haworth,Erik Hinrichsen,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Viraj Karambelkar,Andrew Malonis,Robert A. Simcoe,Jeffry Zolkower +14 more
TL;DR: The Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a new infrared time-domain survey instrument which will be deployed on a dedicated 1 meter robotic telescope at Palomar Observatory as discussed by the authors.
Detector architecture of the wide-field infrared transient explorer (WINTER) InGaAs camera
Andrew Malonis,Nathan P. Lourie,G. Furesz,Danielle Frostig,Erik Hinrichsen,Robert A. Simcoe +5 more
- 13 Dec 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, the InGaAs detector system of the Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER), a new infrared instrument operating on a 1 meter robotic telescope at the Palomar Observatory, is presented.
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Design requirements for the Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER)
Danielle Frostig,John W. Baker,Joshua Brown,Richard S. Burruss,Kristin Clark,Gábor Fűrész,Nicolae Ganciu,Erik Hinrichsen,Viraj Karambelkar,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Nathan P. Lourie,Andrew Malonis,Robert A. Simcoe,Jeffry Zolkower +13 more
- 13 Dec 2020
TL;DR: This work focuses on the top-level science requirements with a detailed example of how the goal of detecting kilonovae flows down to WINTER’s optical design, and discusses new methods for tolerance simulations, eliminating stray light, and maximizing image quality of a fly's-eye design that slices the telescope's focus onto 6 non-buttable, IR detectors.
Status update of LLAMAS - A wide field-of-view visible passband IFU for the 6.5m Magellan telescopes
G. Furesz,Robert A. Simcoe,Mark Egan,Andrew Malonis,Rebecca Masterson,Joshua Brown,Gregory G. Cappiello,Christian Chesbrough,Kristin Clark,David Coppeta,Danielle Frostig,Michelle Gabutti,Samuel Halverson,Erik Hinrichsen,Sabrina Kahn,M. Lambert,Nathan P. Lourie,John Piotrowski,Christopher Semisch +18 more
- 13 Dec 2020
TL;DR: The Large Lenslet Array Magellan Spectrograph (LLAMAS) is an NSF-funded facility-class Integral Field Unit (IFU) spectrograph under construction for the 6.5-m Magellan Telescopes.
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LEXT: a lobster eye optic for Gamow
Charlotte Feldman,P. T. O'Brien,Nicholas E. White,Wayne H. Baumgartner,Nicholas Thomas,Alexander Lodge,Marshall W. Bautz,Erik Hinrichsen +7 more
TL;DR: The Lobster Eye X-ray Telescope (LEXT) is one of the payloads on-board the Gamow Explorer, which will be proposed to the 2021 NASA Explorer MIDEX opportunity as mentioned in this paper.
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