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William Van Shourt

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster + Paper

MegaMapper: concept and optical design for a 6.5m aperture massively multiplexed spectroscopic facility

Guillermo Blanc, Joseph Harry Silber, Stephen Smee, Robert Barkhouser, Robert Besuner, Jeffrey Crane, Juna Kollmeier, Povilas Palunas, David Schlegel, Stephen Shectman, Ricardo Araujo, Charlie Baltay, Mohamed Bouri, Emily Farr, Julien Guy, Leopoldo Infante, Jean-Paul Kneib, Travis Mandeville, Claire Poppett, David Rabinowitz, Solange Ramirez, Michael Schubnell, Joshua Simon, Markus Thurneysen, Sarah Tuttle, William Van Shourt, Stefanie Wachter

Proceedings Volume 12182, 1218230 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2625992

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectrographs, Mirrors, Optical design, Spectroscopy, Robots, Optical instrument design, Multiplexing, Robotics, Image quality

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

Installation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument at the Mayall 4-meter telescope

Robert Besuner, Lori Allen, Charles Baltay, David Brooks, Pierre-Henri Carton, Andrew Peter Doel, John Donaldson, Yutong Duan, Patrick Dunlop, Jerry Edelstein, Matt Evatt, Parker Fagrelius, Enrique Gaztanaga, Derek Guenther, Gaston Gutierrez, Michael Hawes, Klaus Honscheid, Pat Jelinsky, Richard Joyce, Armin Karcher, Martin Landriau, Michael Levi, Christophe Magneville, Robert Marshall, Paul Martini, Daniel Pappalardo, Claire Poppett, Francisco Prada, Ashley Ross, Michael Schubnell, Ray Sharples, William Shourt, Joseph Silber, David Sprayberry, Bob Stupak, Gregory Tarle, Kai Zhang

Proceedings Volume 11447, 1144710 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561507

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectroscopes, Mirrors, Spectrographs, Baryon acoustic oscillations, Galactic astronomy, Optical tracking, Laser systems engineering, System integration, Optical fibers

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Paper

Precision alignment and integration of DESI's focal plane using a laser tracker

William Shourt, Robert Besuner, Joseph Silber, Patrick Dunlop, Matthew Evatt, David Brooks, Peter Doel, Yutong Duan, Kevin Fanning, Enrique Gaztañaga, Paul Martini, Francisco Prada, Michael Schubnell, Gregory Tarle

Proceedings Volume 11445, 114456J (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562687

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Wind energy, Spectroscopes, Baryon acoustic oscillations, Galactic astronomy, Fiber optics, Spectrographs, Retroreflectors, Tolerancing

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Proceedings Article | 27 July 2016 Paper

Design of a wide field far-UV spectrometer for a mission to Mars

Edward Wishnow, Tim Miller, Matthew Fillingim, Jerry Edelstein, Robert Lillis, Eric Korpela, Scott England, William Van Shourt, Oswald Siegmund, Jason McPhate, Sasha Courtade, David Curtis, Justin Deighan, Michael Chaffin, Abdullah Harmoul, Hessa Al Matroushi

Proceedings Volume 9905, 990538 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233512

KEYWORDS: Ultraviolet radiation, Edge roughness, Sensors, Reflectivity, Reflection, Platinum, Charge-coupled devices, Ultraviolet coatings, CCD image sensors, Optical filters

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2016 Paper

The FOXSI solar sounding rocket campaigns

Lindsay Glesener, Säm Krucker, Steven Christe, Shin-nosuke Ishikawa, Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas, Brian Ramsey, Mikhail Gubarev, Tadayuki Takahashi, Shin Watanabe, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Sasha Courtade, Paul Turin, Stephen McBride, Van Shourt, Jane Hoberman, Natalie Foster, Juliana Vievering

Proceedings Volume 9905, 99050E (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232262

KEYWORDS: Rockets, X-ray optics, Sun, Sensors, Solar energy, Silicon, X-ray optics, Electrons, Mirrors, Solar processes, Target detection

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SPIE Journal Paper | 27 May 2016 Open Access

High-resolution broadband spectroscopy using externally dispersed interferometry at the Hale telescope: Part 1, data analysis and results

David Erskine, Jerry Edelstein, Edward Wishnow, Martin Sirk, Philip Muirhead, Matthew Muterspaugh, James Lloyd, Yuzo Ishikawa, Eliza McDonald, William Shourt, Andrew Vanderburg

JATIS, Vol. 2, Issue 02, 025004, (May 2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.2.2.025004

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Point spread functions, Stars, Fabry–Perot interferometers, Interferometry, Spectroscopes, Interferometers, Lamps, Modulation transfer functions, Wavelets

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Proceedings Article | 8 July 2014 Paper

High resolution broad-band spectroscopy in the NIR using the Triplespec externally dispersed interferometer at the Hale telescope

David Erskine, J. Edelstein, M. Sirk, E. Wishnow, Y. Ishikawa, E. McDonald, W. Shourt

Proceedings Volume 9147, 914717 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055186

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Interferometers, Modulation transfer functions, Fabry–Perot interferometers, Stars, Spectroscopy, Spectral resolution, Fourier transforms, Doppler effect, Heterodyning

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