SPIE 2010 papers from the AAO

AAO papers at the 2010 SPIE conference in San Diego, US

Future development of the PLATO Observatory for Antarctic science, Michael C. B. Ashley, Colin S. Bonner, Jon R. Everett, Jon S. Lawrence, Daniel Luong-Van, Scott McDaid, Campbell McLaren, and John W. V. Storey, Proc. SPIE 7735, 773540 (2010).

Sparse aperture masking (SAM) at NAOS/CONICA on the VLT, Peter Tuthill, Sylvestre Lacour, Paola Amico, Michael Ireland, Barnaby Norris, Paul Stewart, Tom Evans, Adam Kraus, Christopher Lidman, Emanuela Pompei, and Nicholas Kornweibel, Proc. SPIE 7735, 77351O (2010).

FMOS the fibre multiple-object spectrograph, part VIII: current performances and results of the engineering observations, Masahiko Kimura, Masayuki Akiyama, Gavin B. Dalton, Fumihide Iwamuro, Ian J. Lewis, Toshinori Maihara, Kouji Ohta, Philip Tait, Naruhisa Takato, Naoyuki Tamura, Ian A. J. Tosh, Scott Smedley, Emma Curtis Lake, Takeshi Inagaki, Eric Jeschke, Kaori Kawate, Yuuki Moritani, Masanao Sumiyoshi, and Kiyoto Yabe, Proc. SPIE 7735, 77351K (2010).

Miniature spectrographs: characterization of arrayed waveguide gratings for astronomy, Nick Cvetojevic, Nemanja Jovanovic, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Roger Haynes, and Jon Lawrence, Proc. SPIE 7739, 77394H (2010).

Photonic technologies for a pupil remapping interferometer, Peter Tuthill, Nemanja Jovanovic, Sylvestre Lacour, Andrew Lehmann, Martin Ams, Graham Marshall, Jon Lawrence, Michael Withford, Gordon Robertson, Michael Ireland, Benjamin Pope, and Paul Stewart, Proc. SPIE 7734, 77341P (2010).

Optical sky brightness at Dome A, Antarctica, from the Nigel experiment, Geoff Sims, Michael C. B. Ashley, Xiangqun Cui, Jon R. Everett, LongLong Feng, Xuefei Gong, Shane Hengst, Zhongwen Hu, Jon S. Lawrence, Daniel M. Luong-Van, Zhaohui Shang, John W. V. Storey, Lifan Wang, Huigen Yang, Ji Yang, Xu Zhou, and Zhengxi Zhu, Proc. SPIE 7733, 77334M (2010).

Snodar: 2009 performance at Dome A, Antarctica, Colin S. Bonner, Michael C. B. Ashley, Stuart G. Bradley, Xiangqun Cui, LongLong Feng, Xuefei Gong, Jon S. Lawrence, Daniel M. Luong-Van, Zhaohui Shang, John W. V. Storey, Lifan Wang, Huigen Yang, Ji Yang, Xu Zhou, and Zhenxi Zhu, Proc. SPIE 7733, 77334A (2010).

Gattini 2010: cutting edge science at the bottom of the world, Anna M. Moore, Sara Ahmed, Michael C. B. Ashley, Max K. Barreto, Xiangqun Cui, Alex Delacroix, Longlong Feng, Xuefei Gong, Jon Lawrence, Daniel M. Luong-Van, D. Christopher Martin, Reed Riddle, Nicole Rowley, Zhaohui Shang, John W. V. Storey, Nick F. H. Tothill, Tony Travouillon, Lifan Wang, Huigen Yang, Ji Yang, Xu Zhou, and Zhengxi Zhu, Proc. SPIE 7733, 77331S (2010).

Fibre Bragg gratings for temporal spectral astronomy, Geraldine Mariën, Nick Cvetojevic, Nemanja Jovanovic, Judith Dawes, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Roger Haynes, Jon Lawrence, Quentin Parker, and Michael J. Withford, Proc. SPIE 7739, 77392C (2010).

Direct laser written multimode waveguides for astronomical applications, Nemanja Jovanovic, Simon Gross, Christopher Miese, Alexander Fuerbach, Jon Lawrence, and Michael J. Withford, Proc. SPIE 7739, 773923 (2010).

Miniature astronomical spectrographs using arrayed-waveguide gratings: capabilities and limitations, Jon Lawrence, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Nick Cvetojevic, Roger Haynes, and Nemanja Jovanovic, Proc. SPIE 7739, 77394I (2010).

ERASMUS-F: pathfinder for an E-ELT 3D instrumentation, Andreas Kelz, Martin M. Roth, Roland Bacon, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Harald E. Nicklas, Julia J. Bryant, Matthew Colless, Scott Croom, Simon Ellis, Andreas Fleischmann, Peter Gillingham, Roger Haynes, Andrew Hopkins, Johan Kosmalski, John W. O'Byrne, Jean-Christophe Olaya, William N. Rambold, and Gordon Robertson, Proc. SPIE 7739, 77394N (2010).

HERMES: revisions in the design for a high-resolution multi-element spectrograph for the AAT, Samuelk C. Barden, Damien J. Jones, Stuart I. Barnes, Jeroen Heijmans, Anthony Heng, Greg Knight, David R. Orr, Greg A. Smith, Vladimir Churilov, Jurek Brzeski, Lewis G. Waller, Keith Shortridge, Anthony J. Horton, Don Mayfield, Roger Haynes, Dionne M. Haynes, Denis Whittard, Michael Goodwin, Scott Smedley, Ian Saunders, Peter R. Gillingham, Ed Penny, Tony J. Farrell, Minh Vuong, Ron Heald, Steve Lee, Rolf Muller, Ken Freeman, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Daniel F. Zucker, and Gayandhi De Silva, Proc. SPIE 7735, 773509 (2010).

XMS and NG1dF: extreme multiplex spectrographs for wide-field multi-object spectroscopy, Robert Content, Sam Barden, Santiago Becerril, Armin Boehm, Paul Clark, Pedro Costillo, C. Mark Dubbeldam, Tony Farrell, Karl Glazebrook, Roger Haynes, Klaus Meisenheimer, Stan Miziarski, Nikolaos Nikoloudakis, Luis Francisco Prada, Ralf-Rainer Rohloff, Tom Shanks, Ray M. Sharples, and Karl Wagner, Proc. SPIE 7735, 77351Q (2010).

GNOSIS: an OH suppression unit for near-infrared spectrographs, S. C. Ellis, J. Bland-Hawthorn, J. S. Lawrence, J. Bryant, R. Haynes, A. Horton, S. Lee, S. Leon-Saval, Hans-Gerd Löhmannsröben, J. Mladenoff, J. O'Byrne, W. Rambold, M. Roth, and C. Trinh, Proc. SPIE 7735, 773516 (2010).

Hexabundles: imaging fibre arrays for low-light astronomical applications, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Julia Bryant, Gordon Robertson, Peter Gillingham, John O'Byrne, Gerald Cecil, Roger Haynes, Scott Croom, Simon Ellis, Martin Maack, Peter Skovgaard, and Danny Noordegraf, Proc. SPIE 7735, 773541 (2010).

PIMMS: photonic integrated multimode microspectrograph, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jon Lawrence, Gordon Robertson, Sam Campbell, Ben Pope, Chris Betters, Sergio Leon-Saval, Tim Birks, Roger Haynes, Nick Cvetojevic, and Nem Jovanovic, Proc. SPIE 7735, 77350N (2010).

Defining requirements and identifying relevant technologies in astrophotonics, Jeremy R. Allington-Smith, Timothy A. Birks, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Colin R. Cunningham, Sonali Dagupta, Roger Haynes, Paulo J. V. Garcia, Ajoy K. Kar, Andreas Kelz, Pierre Y. Kern, Lucas Labadie, Jon S. Lawrence, Etienne P. Le Coarer, Martin M. Roth, Stefano Minardi, Ray M. Sharples, and Robert R. Thomson, Proc. SPIE 7739, 773925 (2010).

Multi-way optical fibre connectors for astronomy, Dionne M. Haynes, Roger Haynes, William Rambold, Michael Goodwin, and Ed J. Penny, Proc. SPIE 7739, 773946 (2010).

Data simulator for the HERMES instrument, Michael Goodwin, Scott Smedley, Stuart Barnes, Tony Farrell, and Sam Barden, Proc. SPIE 7735, 77357U (2010).

MANIFEST: a many-instrument fiber-positioning system for GMT, Will Saunders, Matthew Colless, Ian Saunders, Andrew Hopkins, Michael Goodwin, Jeroen Heijmans, Jurek Brzeski, and Tony Farrell, Proc. SPIE 7735, 773568 (2010).

An off-axis, wide-field, diffraction-limited, reflective Schmidt Telescope, Will Saunders, Proc. SPIE 7733, 77333C (2010).

The Magellan Telescopes: a performance update, Povilas Palunas, David Floyd, Glenn Eychaner, David J. Osip, and Paul Schechter, Proc. SPIE 7733, 77331I (2010).

Performance of the autonomous PLATO Antarctic Observatory over two full years, Daniel M. Luong-Van, Michael C. B. Ashley, Xiangqun Cui, Jon R. Everett, Longlong Feng, Xuefei Gong, Shane Hengst, Jon S. Lawrence, John W. V. Storey, Lifan Wang, Huigen Yang, Ji Yang, Xu Zhou, and Zhengxi Zhu, Proc. SPIE 7733, 77331T (2010).

A formal risk management process for instrumentation projects at the Anglo-Australian Observatory, David R. Orr and Anthony Heng, Proc. SPIE 7738, 77381V (2010).

Starbugs: focal plane fiber positioning technology, Michael Goodwin, Jeroen Heijmans, Ian Saunders, Jurek Brzeski, Will Saunders, Rolf Muller, Roger Haynes, and James Gilbert, Proc. SPIE 7739, 77391E (2010).

Progress in cancellable multi-threaded control software, K. Shortridge and T. J. Farrell, Proc. SPIE 7740, 774029 (2010).

Faking it for pleasure and profit: the use of hardware simulation at AAO, K. Shortridge and M. Vuong, Proc. SPIE 7740, 774008 (2010).

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