M. Phillips
4 Papers
M. Phillips is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Engineering & Observatory. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 4 publications.
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Keck All sky Precision Adaptive optics program overview
Peter Wizinowich,Sylvain Cetre,Jason C. Y. Chin,Carlos Correia,Jacques-Robert Delorme,Luke Gers,Scott Lilley,James E. Lyke,Eduardo Marin,Sam Ragland,P. Richards,Avinash Surendran,E. Wetherell,C. F. Chen,David T. Chu,Tuan Do,Christopher D. Fassnacht,Mark D. Freeman,Abhimat K. Gautam,Andrea M. Ghez,Lisa Hunter,Timothy Jones,M. Liu,Dimitri Mawet,Claire E. Max,M Morris,M. Phillips,Jean-Baptiste Ruffio,Nils Rundquist,Sonny Sabhlok,Sean K. Terry,Tommaso Treu,Shelley A. Wright +32 more
- 30 Aug 2022
TL;DR: The status and plans for the Keck All sky Precision Adaptive Optics (KAPA) program are discussed in this paper , which includes an upgrade to the Kecks I laser guide star adaptive optics (AO) facility to improve image quality and sky coverage, the inclusion of AO telemetry-based point spread function estimates with all science exposures, and an educational component focused on broadening the participation of women and underrepresented groups in instrumentation.
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The compact Doppler magnetograph (CDM) for solar polar missions and space weather research
Donald M. Hassler,Sanjay Gosain,J.-P. Wuelser,J. V. S. Harvey,Thomas N. Woods,J. Iwan D. Alexander,Doug Braun,Sarah Gibson,V. Klein,Ashley Flores,Richard A. Kohnert,Jeffrey S. Newmark,Steven N. Osterman,M. Phillips,Thomas Rose,Michael Shoffner,Han Uitenbroek,K. Heerlein,Joachim Woch,Jun Wei Zhao +19 more
- 27 Aug 2022
TL;DR: The Compact Doppler Magnetograph (CDM) as mentioned in this paper is a space-qualified, miniaturized magnetograph, tailored to the requirements of a solar polar mission, and designed to provide photospheric line-of-sight magnetic field and doppler velocity measurements of the solar surface.
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Las Campanas Observatory operations: current scheme and future challenges
F. Di Mille,Giulio V. Blanc,K. A. Boutsia,Leopoldo Infante,David J. Osip,Povilas Palunas,M. Phillips,L. Zumarán +7 more
- 25 Aug 2022
TL;DR: The Carnegie Observatories in 2019 celebrated 50 years since Las Campanas in northern Chile was chartered as the site for its large telescopes as mentioned in this paper , and since that time Carnegie has deployed four telescopes, the Swope 1 meter, the du Pont 2.5 meter and the two Magellan 6.5 meters.
SwRI's ISpec instrument for the ISCEA observatory: design
T. Veach,John J. Polizotti,Michael W. Davis,Randy Rose,Thomas Rose,M. Phillips,Tonya Brody,Martin Keuchkerian,Yu Wang,Lee Armus,Andreas L. Faisst,Massimo Robberto +11 more
- 27 Aug 2022
TL;DR: The ISCEA near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph instrument (ISpec) with parallel imaging and multi-object spectroscopy channels is designed to determine the history of star formation and its quenching in galaxies as a function of local density and stellar mass when the Universe was 3-5 Gyrs old as mentioned in this paper .