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2008
Jon Lawrence, Michael Ashley, Jeremy Bailey, David Barrado y Navascues, Tim Bedding, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Ian Bond, Francois Boulanger, Hans Bruntt, Denis Burgarella, Michael Burton, Maurizio Busso, Maria-Rosa Cioni, Gilles Durand, Carlos Eiroa, Nicolas Epchtein, Neil Gehrels, Peter Gillingham, Karl Glazebrook, Roger Haynes, Laszlo Kiss, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Thibaut Le Bertre, Craig Mackay, Jean-Pierre Maillard, Andrew McGrath, Vincent Minier, Alcione Mora, Knut Olsen, Paolo Persi, Kevin Pimbblet, Will Saunders, Brian Schmidt, Dennis Stello, John Storey, Chris Tinney, J. Craig Wheeler and Phil Yock:
"Science drivers for PILOT", poster presentation at the ASA 2008 meeting, Perth, July 2008.
(Available online)
Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, Andrew McGrath, Roger Haynes, John Storey and Jon Lawrence:
"The PILOT design study", presentation at the ASA 2008 meeting, Perth, July 2008.
(Available online)
Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, Andrew McGrath, Roger Haynes, Jurek Brzeski, John Storey and Jon Lawrence:
"PILOT: a wide-field telescope for the Antarctic plateau", Proc. SPIE 7012, paper 171 (10 pages).
(Available online)
Anthony Horton, Simon C. Ellis, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Roger Haynes, Andrew McGrath:
"FLEX: the first light explorer. A pathfinder instrument for fiber Bragg grating OH-suppression", Proc. SPIE 7014, paper 110 (8 pages).
(Available online)
Simon C. Ellis, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Anthony Horton, Roger Haynes, Andrew McGrath:
"FLEX: the first light explorer. A fully OH-suppressed near-infrared integral field spectrograph", Proc. SPIE 7014, paper 71 (10 pages).
(Available online)
Andrew McGrath, Sam Barden, Stan Miziarski, William Rambold and Greg Smith:
"2dF grows up: Echidna for the AAT", Proc. SPIE 7014, paper 163 (12 pages).
(Available online)
Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, Andrew McGrath, Roger Haynes, John Storey, Jon Lawrence, Michael Burton and Alcione Mora:
"Proposed instrumentation for PILOT", Proc. SPIE 7014, paper 166 (9 pages).
(Available online)
Andrew McGrath, Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, David Ward, John Storey, Jon Lawrence
and Roger Haynes:
"Running PILOT: operational challenges and plans for an Antarctic
Observatory", Proc. SPIE 7016, paper 14 (12 pages).
(Available online)
Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, Andrew McGrath, John Storey and Jon Lawrence:
"PILOT: design and capabilities", Proceedings of 2nd ARENA conference 'The Astrophysical Science Cases at Dome C', Potsdam, 17-21 September 2007 (4 pages).
(Available online - paper and poster)
Will Saunders and Andrew McGrath:
"WHAT: a Widefield Horizontal Antarctic Telescope", Proceedings of 2nd ARENA conference 'The Astrophysical Science Cases at Dome C', Potsdam, 17-21 September 2007 (4 pages).
(Poster available online)
Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, Andrew McGrath, David Ward, Roger Haynes, John Storey, Jon Lawrence and Michael Burton:
"Design and Capabilities of PILOT", Anglo-Australian Observatory Newsletter, No.113, February 2008, p.13-16.
(Available online, as article or whole newsletter)
2007
Will Saunders and Andrew McGrath:
"WHAT? A Large Reflective Schmidt Telescope for the Antarctic Plateau", EAS Publications Series, Volume 25, 2007, pp.261-264.
Andrew McGrath, Sam Barden, Chris Blake and Ken Freeman:
"WFMOS-A: 2dF meets Echidna", poster presentation at the ASA 2007 meeting, Sydney, June 2007
(Poster available Online)
2006
Andrew McGrath and Roger Haynes:
"Deployable payloads with Starbug", SPIE Proc.6273, paper 70 (2006).
(Available Online)
Roger Haynes, Andrew McGrath, Scott Smedley, Rolf Muller, Stan Miziarski, Peter Gillingham, Gabriella Frost, David Correll and Jurek Brzeski:
"It's alive: Performance and control of prototype Starbug actuators", SPIE Proc.6273, paper 69 (2006).
(Available Online)
Andrew McGrath:
"Making it real - Computer graphics and astronomical instrumentation", SPIE Proc.6271, paper 51 (2006).
(Available Online)
Stan Miziarski, Andrew McGrath, N.Milby, D.E.Brosius and M.J.von Bertouch
"A new look for Gemini: Rapid-cured composites for an exchangeable top-end", SPIE Proc.6273, paper 121 (2006).
(Available Online)
Roger Haynes and Andrew McGrath:
"Wide field astronomy with Starbug", New Astronomy Reviews Vol.50 issue 4-5, p.329-331 (2006).
(Available Online)
2005
Roger Haynes and Andrew McGrath:
"Starbug - A smart focal plane technology for ELT instruments", Proceedings of Instrumentation for Extremely Large Telescopes Workshop, Ringberg Castle, Bavaria, 25-29 July 2005.
(Available online - paper and slides)
Will Saunders and Andrew McGrath:
"A Large Reflective Schmidt Telescope for Antarctica", Highlights of Astronomy, Vol. 13, as presented at the XXVth General Assembly of the IAU - 2003 [Sydney, Australia, 13 - 26 July 2003]. Edited by O. Engvold. San Francisco, CA: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ISBN 1-58381-189-3. XXIX + 1085 pp., 2005, p.958.
2004
Andrew McGrath and Anna Moore:
"Starbug - enabling the smart focal plane", SPIE Proc.5495, p.600-610 (2004).
(Available Online)
Greg Smith, Jurek Brzeski, Stan Miziarski, Peter Gillingham, Anna Moore and Andrew McGrath:
"A survey of fibre positioning technologies", SPIE Proc.5495, p.348-359 (2004).
(Available Online)
Anna Moore and Andrew McGrath:
"The MOMFOS fibre positioner", SPIE Proc.5492, p.1835-1845 (2004).
(Available Online)
Andrew McGrath, Will Saunders, Fred Watson and Stan Miziarski:
"Ukidna - the RAVE machine", SPIE Proc.5492, p.353-363 (2004).
(Available Online)
Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Andrew McGrath, Will Saunders, Roger Haynes and Peter Gillingham:
"Honeycomb: a concept for a programmable integral field spectrograph", SPIE Proc.5492, p.242-250 (2004).
(Available Online)
Will Saunders and Andrew McGrath:
"A Large Reflective Schmidt Telescope for the Antarctic Plateau", SPIE Proc.5489, p.462-469 (2004).
(Available Online)
Samuel C. Barden, Andrew McGrath, Peter R. Gillingham and Charles F. W. Harmer:
"A 1-degree FOV 30-meter telescope concept revisited", SPIE Proc.5489, p.454-461 (2004).
(Available Online)
Anna Moore and Andrew McGrath:
"Prototyping results for a wide-field fibre positioner for the Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope", SPIE Proc.5382, p.755-762 (2004).
(Available Online)
2003
Andrew McGrath, Jeremy Bailey and Joss Bland-Hawthorn:
"Mars and the Anglo-Australian Observatory", Invited talk for the National Space Society of Australia, Powerhouse Museum, 14 October 2003.
(Available Online)
Will Saunders and Andrew McGrath:
"A Large Reflective Schmidt Telescope for the Antarctic Plateau", Special Meeting accompanying IAU - Future Visions for Antarctic astronomy, 17 July 2003.
(Available online as paper or slides)
Nathalie Selbach, Georg Heygster, Tim Hewison, Jonathan Taylor and Andrew McGrath:
"The SEPOR-POLEX Campaign: total Water Vapor and Surface Emissivity of Sea Ice at 89,157 and 183 GHz",
EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #14714.
Andrew McGrath:
"Directions for Future Instrumentation Development by the AAO", Anglo-Australian Observatory Newsletter, Special issue, July 2003, p.1,18-19.
(Available Online)
Jonathan P. Taylor, Stuart M. Newman, Tim J. Hewison and Andrew McGrath:
"Water vapour line and continuum absorption in the thermal infrared - reconciling models and observations", Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc. Vol.129, No.594, Oct 2003, p.2949-2969
(Available Online)
Nathalie Selbach, Tim Hewison, Georg Heygster, Jungang Miao, Andrew McGrath and Jonathan Taylor:
"Validation of total water vapor retrieval with an airborne millimeter-wave airborne radiometer over
Arctic sea ice",
Radio Sci., 38(4), 8061, doi:10.1029/2002RS002669, 2003 (Available Online)
Andrew McGrath:
"Lasers in Space", Anglo-Australian Observatory Newsletter, No.103, March 2003, p.16-19.
(Available Online)
2002
Andrew McGrath, Joss Bland-Hawthorn and Jeremy Bailey:
"Broadband link to Mars", Australasian Science Vol.23, No.10, November 2002, p.18-20.
(Available Online)
Andrew McGrath, Joss Bland-Hawthorn and Jeremy Bailey:
"The Australian Centre for Space Photonics", Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Space Science Workshop, Sydney, 15-17 July 2002.
(Available Online)
T.J.Hewison, N.Selbach, G.Heygster, J.P.Taylor and A.J.McGrath: Airborne Measurements of Arctic Sea Ice, Glacier and Snow Emissivity at 24-183 GHz, Proceedings of IGARSS 2002, Toronto, 25-29 June 2002, p.2851-2855.
(Available Online)
2001
A.J.McGrath and T.J.Hewison:
Measuring the accuracy of MARSS - an Airborne Microwave Radiometer,
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanographic Technologies, Vol.18, No.12, 2001, p.2003-2012.
(Available Online)
Tim Hewison, Andrew McGrath and Jonathan Taylor:
Validation of water vapour absorption models using a millimetre-wave airborne radiometer,
Specialist Meeting on Microwave Remote Sensing, 5-9 November 2001, Boulder, Colorado, USA
(Available Online)
Nathalie Selbach, Tim Hewison, Georg Heygster, Jungang Miao, Andrew McGrath, Jonathan Taylor:
Validation of retrieved integrated water vapour with an airborne millimeter-wave airborne radiometer over Arctic sea ice,
Poster presented at Specialist Meeting on Microwave Remote Sensing, 5-9 November 2001, Boulder, Colorado, USA
(Available Online)
Jonathan P. Taylor, Stuart Newman, Tim Hewison and Andrew McGrath:
"Water vapour studies in support of AMSU and IASI"
MRF Technical Note 37, 2001.
T.J.Hewison and A.J.McGrath:
Performance assessment of Liquid Nitrogen Calibration Target supplied by Fred Solheim (Radiometrics) at 89, 157 and 183 GHz,
MRF Technical Note 39, 2001.
(Available Online)
2000
A.J.McGrath and T.J.Hewison:
Radiometric Characterisation of the UK Met. Office
Microwave Airborne Radiometer Scanning System (MARSS). Proceedings IGARSS2000, Honolulu,
24-28 July 2000.
(Available Online)
Hewison, T.J., A.J. McGrath, J.P. Taylor and A.K. Vance:
Measurements of Water Vapour Absorption by a Microwave Airborne Radiometer. Proceedings IGARSS2000, Honolulu, 24-28 July 2000.
J.P.Taylor, T.J.Hewison, A.McGrath and A.Vance:
Measurements and modelling of water vapour spectroscopy in tropical and sub-arctic atmospheres,
Proceedings of IRS Symposium, St.Peterburg, Russia, July 2000.
(Available Online)
1999
McGrath, A.J.: MARSS Thermometry Characterisation. Met Office Remote Sensing Branch Working Paper No. 178, 20 pp. [Available from Head of Remote Sensing Branch, Met Office, Y70 DERA, Farnborough, Hants, GU14 0LX, UK, or Online].
1998
McGrath, A.J.: An Erbium:Glass Coherent Laser Radar for Remote Sensing of Wind Velocity, PhD thesis, Flinders University of South Australia, School of Earth Sciences.
(Available Online)
McGrath, A.J., J. Munch, G. Smith, and P. Veitch: Injection-seeded, single-frequency, Q-switched erbium:glass laser for remote sensing, Applied Optics 37(24), p.5706-5709.
(Available Online)
McGrath, A.J., J. Munch, P. Veitch, G. Smith and J.M. Hacker: Erbium:glass coherent laser radar at 1.5µm. Paper presented at Lasers and Optics Workshop, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) Salisbury Optoelectronics Hub, 6-7 August 1998.
1997
McGrath, A.J., J. Munch and J. Hacker: A coherent erbium:glass laser transmitter for a pulsed Doppler lidar system'. Paper presented at Workshop on Propagation and Imaging Science, associated with the 11th Conference of the Australian Optical Society, at the National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Adelaide, 8-9 December.
Munch, J., P. Veitch, M. Hamilton, C. Hollitt, Y. Matyagin, A.J. McGrath, B. Middlemiss and D. Ottoway: Coherent Laser Radar, Final Report 1996-1997. Research contract between DSTO and The University of Adelaide.
McGrath, A.J., J. Munch and J. Hacker: Doppler Coherent laser radar measurements. Paper presented at Workshop on Refractive Turbulence, DSTO Salisbury, 10-11 June 1997.
1996
McGrath, A.J. and J. M. Hacker: A Signal Processing System for a Pulsed Doppler Lidar. Poster presentation at AMOS 3 Conference, Hobart, February 16-20 1996.
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