• 제목/요약/키워드: Observatory design

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Development Plan for the GMT Fast-steering Secondary Mirror

  • Lee, Sugnho;Han, Jeong-Yeol;Park, Chan;Jeong, Ueejeong;Yoon, Yang-noh;Song, Je Heon;Moon, Bongkon;Park, Byeong-Gon;Cho, Myung K.;Dribusch, Christoph;Park, Won Hyun;Jun, Youra;Yang, Ho-Soon;Moon, Il-Kwon;Oh, Chang Jin;Kim, Ho-Sang;Lee, Kyoung-Don;Bernier, Robert;Gardner, Paul;Alongi, Chris;Rakich, Andrew;Dettmann, Lee;Rosenthal, Wylie
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제41권2호
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    • pp.66.3-67
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    • 2016
  • The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will feature two interchangeable Gregorian secondary mirrors, an adaptive secondary mirror (ASM) and a fast-steering secondary mirror (FSM). The FSM has an effective diameter of 3.2 m and built as seven 1.1 m diameter circular segments, which are conjugated 1:1 to the seven 8.4m segments of the primary. Each FSM segment contains a tip-tilt capability for fine co-alignment of the telescope subapertures and fast guiding to attenuate telescope wind shake and mount control jitter. This tip-tilt capability thus enhances performance of the telescope in the seeing limited observation mode. As the first stage of the FSM development, KASI conducted a Phase 0 study to develop a program plan detailing the design and manufacturing process for the seven FSM segments. The GMTO-KASI team matured this plan via an internal review in May 2016 and the revised plan was further assessed by an external review in June 2016. In this poster, we present the technical aspects of the FSM development plan.

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OPTIMAL FORMATION TRAJECTORY-PLANNING USING PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE

  • Lim, Hyung-Chul;Bang, Hyo-Choong;Park, Kwan-Dong;Lee, Woo-Kyoung
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • 제21권3호
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    • pp.209-220
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    • 2004
  • Some methods have been presented to get optimal formation trajectories in the step of configuration or reconfiguration, which subject to constraints of collision avoidance and final configuration. In this study, a method for optimal formation trajectory-planning is introduced in view of fuel/time minimization using parameter optimization technique which has not been applied to optimal trajectory-planning for satellite formation flying. New constraints of nonlinear equality are derived for final configuration and constraints of nonlinear inequality are used for collision avoidance. The final configuration constraints are that three or more satellites should be placed in an equilateral polygon of the circular horizontal plane orbit. Several examples are given to get optimal trajectories based on the parameter optimization problem which subjects to constraints of collision avoidance and final configuration. They show that the introduced method for trajectory-planning is well suited to trajectory design problems of formation flying missions.

DEVELOPMENT OF WIDE-FIELD IMAGING CAMERA FOR ZODIACAL LIGHT OBSERVATION

  • KWON S. M.;HONG S. S.;SHIN K. J.
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제37권4호
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    • pp.179-184
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    • 2004
  • We have developed a wide-field imaging camera system, called WICZO, to monitor light of the night sky over extended period. Such monitoring is necessary for studying the morphology of interplanetary dust cloud and also the time and spatial variations of airglow emission. The system consists of an electric cooler a CCD camera with $60\%$ quantum efficiency at 500nm, and a fish-eye lens with $180^{\circ}$ field of view. Wide field imaging is highly desired in light of the night sky observations in general, because the zodiacal light and the airglow emission extend over the entire sky. This paper illustrates the design of WICZO, reports the result of its laboratory performance test, and presents the first night sky image, which was taken, under collaboration with Byulmaro Observatory, on top of Mt. Bongrae at Yongweol in January, 2004.

THE EVOLUTION OF ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY DESIGN

  • Castro Tirado, Miguel Angel;Castro-Tirado, Alberto J.
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제52권4호
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    • pp.99-108
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    • 2019
  • This work addresses the development of the astronomical observatory all through history, from an architectural point of view, as a building in relation to the observing instruments and their functioning as a heterogeneous work center. We focused on 32 observatories (in the period 1259-2007) and carefully analyzed the architectures. Considering the impact of the construction itself or its facilities on the results of the research (thermal or structural stability, poor weather protection, turbulence, etc.), there is little attention paid to theories or studies of the architectural or construction aspects of the observatories. Therefore, this work aims to present a theoretical-critical contribution that, at least, invites the reflection of those involved in the development of astronomical observatories in the future.

IGRINS First Light Instrumental Performance

  • Park, Chan;Yuk, In-Soo;Chun, Moo-Young;Pak, Soojong;Kim, Kang-Min;Pavel, Michael;Lee, Hanshin;Oh, Heeyoung;Jeong, Ueejeong;Sim, Chae Kyung;Lee, Hye-In;Le, Huynh Anh Nguyen;Strubhar, Joseph;Gully-Santiago, Michael;Oh, Jae Sok;Cha, Sang-Mok;Moon, Bongkon;Park, Kwijong;Brooks, Cynthia;Ko, Kyeongyeon;Han, Jeong-Yeol;Nah, Jakyuong;Hill, Peter C.;Lee, Sungho;Barnes, Stuart;Park, Byeong-Gon;T., Daniel
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제39권1호
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    • pp.52.2-52.2
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    • 2014
  • The Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) is an unprecedentedly minimized infrared cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph with a high-resolution and high-sensitivity optical performance. A silicon immersion grating features the instrument for the first time in this field. IGRINS will cover the entire portion of the wavelength range between 1.45 and $2.45{\mu}m$ accessible from the ground in a single exposure with spectral resolution of 40,000. Individual volume phase holographic (VPH) gratings serve as cross-dispersing elements for separate spectrograph arms covering the H and K bands. On the 2.7m Harlan J. Smith telescope at the McDonald Observatory, the slit size is $1^{\prime\prime}{\times}15^{\prime\prime}$. IGRINS has a $0.27^{\prime\prime}$ pixel-1 plate scale on a $2048{\times}2048$ pixel Teledyne Scientific & Imaging HAWAII-2RG detector with SIDECAR ASIC cryogenic controller. The instrument includes four subsystems; a calibration unit, an input relay optics module, a slit-viewing camera, and nearly identical H and K spectrograph modules. The use of a silicon immersion grating and a compact white pupil design allows the spectrograph collimated beam size to be 25mm, which permits the entire cryogenic system to be contained in a moderately sized rectangular vacuum chamber. The fabrication and assembly of the optical and mechanical hardware components were completed in 2013. In this presentation, we describe the major design characteristics of the instrument and the early performance estimated from the first light commissioning at the McDonald Observatory.

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군집분석과 변동핵밀도함수를 이용한 지역빈도해석의 확률강우량 산정 (Estimation of Probability Precipitation by Regional Frequency Analysis using Cluster analysis and Variable Kernel Density Function)

  • 오태석;문영일;오근택
    • 대한토목학회논문집
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    • 제28권2B호
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    • pp.225-236
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    • 2008
  • 수공구조물의 설계를 위한 확률강우량의 산정방법은 크게 지점빈도해석과 지역빈도해석으로 구분된다. 일반적으로 확률강우량은 대상유역에 위치하는 강우관측소에서 관측된 강우량자료를 지점빈도해석으로 추정하게 된다. 지점빈도해석을 통한 확률강우량을 산정하기 위해서는 충분한 기간 동안의 관측된 강우량자료의 확보가 필수적이라 할 수 있으나 관측자료의 부족으로 인해 매개변수의 편의가 발생할 수 있다. 따라서 부족한 강우자료를 보완하고 안정적인 확률강우량을 산정하기 위한 방안으로 지역빈도해석이 추천되어지고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 우리나라 강우관측소의 위치 및 시간강우량 특성을 이용한 군집분석을 수행하여 강우관측소를 군집화 하였다. 군집화 된 강우관측소를 대상으로 L-moment 법을 통해 산정한 매개변수를 이용하여 각각의 지역별로 불일치성 및 이질성 검정을 통한 지역구분을 수행하여 우리나라 강우관측소를 6개 지역으로 구분하였다. 구분된 지역별로 L-moment 법, 지수홍수법 및 변동핵밀도함수를 적용한 지역빈도해석을 수행하여 각각 확률강우량을 산정하여 비교하였다. 분석결과에서 변동핵밀도함수를 이용한 지역빈도해석은 다른 기법에서 적합한 확률분포형 결정이 어려운 경우 등에 충분히 활용할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

가공송전용 철탑설계기준(안) 소개 및 주요내용 해설 (Introduction of the Design Standard of Tower for Overhead Transmission Line in KEPCO)

  • 김경호;우정욱;심응보;신태우;유철환;방항권
    • 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한전기학회 2002년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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    • pp.351-353
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    • 2002
  • Up to now the design standard of tower for overhead transmission line in KEPCO was revised four times since 1970. During last year. we had reviewed this design standard. This paper shows the design standard of tower for overhead transmission line in KEPCO. In this standard, a kind of tower was defined as standard tower and special tower. Also we had defined usage range of standard tower, tower height, arrangement of power line, design condition of tower arm and etc. On the wind pressure, we had defined basic velocity pressure per region and maximum wind pressure. For special region, design wind pressure will be considered the receded wind velocity of meteorological observatory and regional condition by this standard.

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AUTO-GUIDING SYSTEM FOR CQUEAN (CAMERA FOR QUASARS IN EARLY UNIVERSE)

  • Kim, Eun-Bin;Park, Won-Kee;Jeong, Hyeon-Ju;Kim, Jin-Young;Kuehne, John;Kim, Dong-Han;Kim, Han-Geun;Odoms, Peter S.;Chang, Seung-Hyuk;Im, Myung-Shin;Pak, Soo-Jong
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제44권4호
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    • pp.115-123
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    • 2011
  • To perform imaging observations of optically red objects such as high redshift quasars and brown dwarfs, the Center for the Exploration of the Origin of the Universe (CEOU) recently developed an optical CCD camera, Camera for QUasars in EArly uNiverse (CQUEAN), which is sensitive at 0.7-1.1 ${\mu}m$. To enable observations with long exposures, we develop an auto-guiding system for CQUEAN. This system consists of an off-axis mirror, a baffle, a CCD camera, a motor and a differential decelerator. To increase the number of available guiding stars, we design a rotating mechanism for the off-axis guiding camera. The guiding field can be scanned along the 10 arcmin ring offset from the optical axis of the telescope. Combined with the auto-guiding software of the McDonald Observatory, we confirm that a stable image can be obtained with an exposure time as long as 1200 seconds.

인공우주물체 추적용 완전 개폐형 돔의 설계 및 구조해석 (DESIGN AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF DOME ENCLOSURE FOR TRACKING ARTIFICIAL SPACE OBJECTS)

  • 설경환;김상준;장민환;민상웅;문병식;백기민
    • 천문학논총
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    • 제22권4호
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    • pp.211-217
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    • 2007
  • We have been making dual dome enclosures which are useful to track artificial space objects at SSNT (Space Science and Technology Lab.) Kyung Hee University. We verified the safety of the dome enclosures using basic design and structure analyses before manufacturing them, and then performed an optimization analysis for economic and safe systems. The dome enclosure has a fully-open type structure to smoothly operate a telescope made in the style of altazimuth mount with very fast tracking. It is also designed to be safe against extreme weather conditions. The general structure of the observatory system consists of the dual dome enclosures at the top of a container. For the structural analyses, we consider the following two methods: (1) gravitational sustain analysis - how the structure supporting the dome withstand the weight of the dome, and (2) wind load analysis that considers the effect of the wind velocity at the region where the observatory is located. The result of overall deformation is found to be less than 0.551mm and the result of equivalent stress is found to be 20.293Mpa, indicating that the dual dome system is reasonably designed. This means structurally to be safe.

IGRINS Mirror Mount Design for Three Off-Axis Collimators and One Slit-Viewer Fold Mirror

  • Rukdee, Surangkhana;Park, Chan;Kim, Kang-Min;Lee, Sung-Ho;Chun, Moo-Young;Yuk, In-Soo;Oh, Hee-Young;Jung, Hwa-Kyoung;Lee, Chung-Uk;Lee, Han-Shin;Rafal, Marc D.;Barnes, Stuart;Jaffe, Daniel T.
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • 제29권2호
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    • pp.233-244
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    • 2012
  • The Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute and the Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin are developing a near infrared wide-band high resolution spectrograph, immersion grating infrared spectrometer (IGRINS). The compact white-pupil design of the instrument optics uses seven cryogenic mirrors, including three aspherical off-axis collimators and four flat fold mirrors. In this study, we introduce the optomechanical mount designs of three off-axis collimating mirrors and one flat slit-viewer fold mirror. Two of the off-axis collimators are serving as H and K-band pupil transfer mirrors, and are designed as system alignment compensators in combination with the H2RG focal plane array detectors in each channel. For this reason, the mount designs include tip-tilt and parallel translation adjustment mechanisms to properly perform the precision alignment function. This means that the off-axis mirrors' optomechanical mount designs are among the most sensitive tasks in all IGRINS system hardware. The other flat fold mirror is designed within its very limitedly allowed work space. This slit-viewer fold mirror is mounted with its own version of the six-point kinematic optics mount. The design work consists of a computer-aided 3D modeling and finite element analysis (FEA) technique to optimize the structural stability and the thermal behavior of the mount models. From the structural and thermal FEA studies, we conclude that the four IGRINS mirror mounts are well designed to meet all optical stability tolerances and system thermal requirements.