John Ford
University of Arizona
15 Papers
27 Citations
John Ford is an academic researcher from University of Arizona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Green Bank Telescope & Primary mirror. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 15 publications. Previous affiliations of John Ford include National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
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A Decade of Developing Radio-Astronomy Instrumentation using CASPER Open-Source Technology
Jack Hickish,Zuhra Abdurashidova,Zaki S. Ali,Kaushal D. Buch,Sandeep C. Chaudhari,Hong Chen,Matthew R. Dexter,Rachel Simone Domagalski,Rachel Simone Domagalski,John Ford,John Ford,Griffin Foster,David George,Joe Greenberg,Lincoln J. Greenhill,A. R. Isaacson,Homin Jiang,Glenn Jones,F. Kapp,H. Kriel,Rich Lacasse,Andrew Lutomirski,David MacMahon,Jason Manley,Andrew Martens,Randy McCullough,Mekhala V. Muley,Wesley New,Aaron R. Parsons,Danny C. Price,Rurik A. Primiani,Jason Ray,Andrew Siemion,Andrew Siemion,Andrew Siemion,Verees'e Van Tonder,Laura Vertatschitsch,Mark Wagner,Mark Wagner,Jonathan Weintroub,Dan Werthimer +40 more
TL;DR: The ongoing state of software development is described, as CASPER looks to support a broader range of programming environments and hardware and ensure compatibility with the latest vendor tools.
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Holographic Measurement and Improvement of the Green Bank Telescope Surface
Todd R. Hunter,Frederic R. Schwab,Steven White,John Ford,Frank D. Ghigo,Ronald J. Maddalena,Brian Mason,J. D. Nelson,Richard M. Prestage,Jason Ray,Paul Ries,Paul Ries,Robert Simon,Sivasankaran Srikanth,Peter Whiteis +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the successful design, implementation, and operation of a 12 GHz holography system installed on the Robert C Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) using a geostationary satellite beacon to construct high-resolution holographic images of the telescope mirror surface irregularities.
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A GPU-Based Wide-Band Radio Spectrometer
Jayanth Chennamangalam,Simon Scott,Glenn Jones,Hong Chen,John Ford,Amanda A. Kepley,Duncan R. Lorimer,Jun Nie,Richard M. Prestage,D. Anish Roshi,Mark Wagner,Dan Werthimer +11 more
TL;DR: A wide-band reconfigurable spectrometer built using an off-the-shelf graphics processing unit card on the latest generation of graphics processing units, enabling high-performance online data reduction and accelerated online signal processing.
Development and status of MAPS, the MMT AO exoPlanet characterization system
Katie M. Morzinski,Manny Montoya,C. Fellows,Olivier Durney,John Ford,Grant West,Andrew Gardner,Amali Vaz,Narsireddy Anugu,Emily Mailhot,Jared Carlson,Lori Harrison,Frank Gacon,E. Downey,Philip Hinz,Terry J. Jones,J. Patience,Suresh Sivanandam,Shaojie Chen,Masen Lamb,Adam Butko,Siqi Liu,Tim Hardy,Buell T. Jannuzi +23 more
- 13 Dec 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, the adaptive-secondary mirror (ASM)-based AO system on the 6.5m MMT in Arizona was updated and refurbished for exoplanet characterization.
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Developing new adaptive secondary electronics for the MAPS project
Phil Hinz,E. Downey,Oscar M. Montoya,John Ford,Keith Powell,R. F. Hill +5 more
- 30 Jul 2018
TL;DR: The design of the MAPS adaptive secondary electronics is presented and the status of the prototyping and fabrication is described and the design goals for the refurbishment are to develop a system that uses less power, is more compact, and is as cost effective as possible.
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