Thomas A. Sebring
University of Texas at Austin
15 Papers
59 Citations
Thomas A. Sebring is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Telescope & Primary mirror. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 15 publications. Previous affiliations of Thomas A. Sebring include Pennsylvania State University.
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The early performance and present status of the Hobby-Eberly telescope
Lawrence W. Ramsey,Mark T. Adams,Thomas G. Barnes,John A. Booth,Mark E. Cornell,James R. Fowler,Niall Gaffney,John W. Glaspey,John M. Good,Gary J. Hill,Philip W. Kelton,Victor L. Krabbendam,Larry Edwin Long,Phillip J. MacQueen,Frank B. Ray,Randall L. Ricklefs,J. Sage,Thomas A. Sebring,William J. Spiesman,M. Steiner +19 more
TL;DR: The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) as mentioned in this paper is a recently completed 9-meter telescope designed to specialize in spectroscopy, and it has been used extensively in the field of astronomy.
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Development and performance of Hobby-Eberly Telescope 11-m segmented mirror
TL;DR: The Hobby Eberly Telescope as mentioned in this paper is a unique eleven-meter spherical primary mirror consisting of a single steel truss populated with 91 ZerodurTM mirror segments, which are coaligned to within 0.0625 ar sec and held to 25 microns of piston envelope using a segment positioning system that consists of 273 actuators (3 per mirror), a distributed population of controllers, and custom developed software.
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Design and status of the Spectroscopic Survey Telescope
Thomas A. Sebring,John A. Booth,John M. Good,Victor L. Krabbendam,Frank B. Ray,Lawrence W. Ramsey +5 more
- 01 Jun 1994
TL;DR: The Spectroscopic Survey Telescope (SST) as mentioned in this paper was constructed by a consortium of universities at McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains of Texas for a fraction of the cost of astronomical telescopes of comparable size.
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Aplanatic corrector designs for the extremely large telescope
TL;DR: This work shows that there are several catoptric (all-reflecting) corrector designs that enable a fast telescope based on a spherical primary mirror.
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Extremely large telescope: a twenty-five meter aperture for the twenty-first century
Frank N. Bash,Thomas A. Sebring,Frank B. Ray,Lawrence W. Ramsey +3 more
- 21 Mar 1997
TL;DR: The 10-meter Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) as discussed by the authors provides technology for optical Arecibo-type telescopes which can be extrapolated to even larger apertures using a fixed elevation angle and a spherical segmented primary mirror.
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