24 Papers
43 Citations
Mark Egan is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deformable mirror & CubeSat. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 21 publications.
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The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER): design and development
Keith C. Gendreau,Zaven Arzoumanian,Phillip Adkins,Cheryl L. Albert,John F. Anders,Andrew T. Aylward,Charles Baker,Erin Balsamo,William A. Bamford,Suyog S. Benegalrao,Daniel L. Berry,Shiraz Bhalwani,J. Kevin Black,Carl Blaurock,Ginger Bronke,Gary L. Brown,Jason Budinoff,Jeffrey D. Cantwell,Thoniel Cazeau,Philip T. Chen,Thomas G. Clement,Andrew T. Colangelo,Jerry S. Coleman,Jonathan D. Coopersmith,William E. Dehaven,John P. Doty,Mark Egan,Teruaki Enoto,Terry W.-M. Fan,Deneen M. Ferro,R. Foster,Nicholas M. Galassi,Luis D. Gallo,Christopher M. Green,Dave Grosh,Kong Q. Ha,Monther A. Hasouneh,Kristofer B. Heefner,Phyllis Hestnes,Lisa J. Hoge,Tawanda M. Jacobs,John Leif Jørgensen,Michael A. Kaiser,James W. Kellogg,Steven Kenyon,Richard Koenecke,Robert Kozon,Beverly LaMarr,Mike D. Lambertson,Anne M. Larson,Steven Lentine,Jesse Lewis,Michael G. Lilly,Kuochia Alice Liu,Andrew Malonis,Sridhar S. Manthripragada,Craig B. Markwardt,Bryan D. Matonak,Isaac E. Mcginnis,Roger L. Miller,Alissa L. Mitchell,Jason W. Mitchell,Jelila S. Mohammed,Charles Monroe,K Garcia,Peter Mule,Louis T. Nagao,Son N. Ngo,Eric D. Norris,Dwight A. Norwood,Joseph Novotka,Takashi Okajima,L. Olsen,Chimaobi O. Onyeachu,Henry Y. Orosco,Jacqualine R. Peterson,Kristina N. Pevear,Karen K. Pham,Sue E. Pollard,John S. Pope,Daniel Powers,Charles E. Powers,Samuel R. Price,Gregory Y. Prigozhin,Julian B. Ramirez,Winston J. Reid,Ronald A. Remillard,Eric M. Rogstad,Glenn P. Rosecrans,John N. Rowe,Jennifer A. Sager,Claude A. Sanders,Bruce Savadkin,Maxine R. Saylor,Alexander F. Schaeffer,Nancy S. Schweiss,Sean R. Semper,Peter J. Serlemitsos,Larry V. Shackelford,Yang Soong,Jonathan Struebel,Michael Vezie,Joel Villasenor,Luke Winternitz,George I. Wofford,Michael R. Wright,Mike Y. Yang,Wayne H. Yu +107 more
TL;DR: The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission is scheduled for launch in early 2017 on the Commercial Resupply Services SpaceX-11 flight.
The deformable mirror demonstration mission (DeMi) CubeSat: optomechanical design validation and laboratory calibration
Gregory Allan,Ewan S. Douglas,Derek Barnes,Mark Egan,Gabor Furesz,Warren Grunwald,Jennifer Gubner,Jennifer Gubner,Christian Haughwout,Bobby G. Holden,Paula do Vale Pereira,Abigail J. Stein,Kerri Cahoy +12 more
- 21 Aug 2018
TL;DR: The Deformable Mirror Demonstration Mission (DeMi) as mentioned in this paper demonstrated a 140 actuator MEMS deformable mirror (DM) with 5:5 μm maximum stroke.
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Optical calibration and first light for the deformable mirror demonstration mission CubeSat (DeMi)
Rachel Morgan,Ewan S. Douglas,Gregory Allan,Paula do Vale Pereira,Jennifer Gubner,Christian Haughwout,Bobby G. Holden,Thomas E. Murphy,John Merk,Mark Egan,G. Furesz,Danilo Roascio,Yinzi Xin,Kerri Cahoy +13 more
TL;DR: Ground testing data show that the DeMi SHWFS can measure individual actuator deflections on the MEMS DM to within 10 nm of interferometric calibration measurements and can meet the 12-nm precision mission requirement for actuators deflection voltages between 0 and 120 V.
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.
Calibration and Testing of the Deformable Mirror Demonstration Mission (DeMi) CubeSat Payload
Rachel Morgan,Gregory Allan,Ewan S. Douglas,Jennifer Gubner,Yeyuan Xin,Paula do Vale Pereira,Bobby G. Holden,Christian Haughwout,Gabor Furesz,Mark Egan,John Merk,Derek Barnes,Roedolph A. Opperman,Kerri Cahoy +13 more
- 01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: The DeMi payload will characterize the on-orbit performance of a 140 actuator MEMS DM with 5.5 μm maximum stroke, with a goal of measuring individual actuator wavefront displacement contributions to a precision of 12 nm.