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Joeleff Fitzsimmons
Researcher at National Research Council
Publications - 56
Citations - 408
Joeleff Fitzsimmons is an academic researcher from National Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Telescope & Adaptive optics. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 46 publications receiving 341 citations. Previous affiliations of Joeleff Fitzsimmons include Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics.
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Wind loads on ground-based telescopes.
Douglas G. MacMynowski,Konstantinos Vogiatzis,George Z. Angeli,Joeleff Fitzsimmons,Jerry E. Nelson +4 more
TL;DR: The amplitude, temporal spectrum, and spatial distribution of wind disturbances are defined as a function of relevant design parameters, providing a significant improvement in the understanding of an important design issue.
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HARP-B: a 350-GHz 16-element focal plane array for the James Clerk Maxwell telescope
Henry Mr. Smith,Richard Hills,Stafford Withington,Johnathan Richer,Jamie Leech,R. Williamson,H. Gibson,Roger Dace,P. G. Ananthasubramanian,R. W. Barker,Robert Baldwin,Howard M. Stevenson,P. Doherty,Dennis Molloy,Victor Quy,Chris Lush,Sally Hales,William R. F. Dent,Ian Pain,Robert Wall,Peter Hastings,Brenda Graham,Thomas E. C. Baillie,Ken Laidlaw,Richard J. Bennett,Ian Laidlaw,William Duncan,Maureen A. Ellis,R. O. Redman,Robert Wooff,Keith Yeung,Joeleff Fitzsimmons,L. W. Avery,Dennis Derdall,Dean Josephson,Andre Anthony,Raj Atwal,Tomas Chylek,Dean J. Shutt,Per Friberg,Nicholas P. Rees,Robin Philips,M. Kroug,Teun M. Klapwijk,Tony Zijlstra +44 more
TL;DR: A 350GHz 4 × 4 element heterodyne focal plane array using SIS detectors is presently being constructed for the JCMT as mentioned in this paper, and the first light is currently anticipated in spring 2004.
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NFIRAOS adaptive optics for the Thirty Meter Telescope
Jeffrey D. Crane,Glen Herriot,David R. Andersen,Jenny Atwood,Peter Byrnes,Adam Densmore,Jennifer Dunn,Joeleff Fitzsimmons,Tim Hardy,Brian Hoff,Kate Jackson,Dan Kerley,Olivier Lardière,Malcolm G. Smith,Jonathan Stocks,Jean-Pierre Veran,Corinne Boyer,Lianqi Wang,Gelys Trancho,Melissa Trubey +19 more
TL;DR: NFIRAOS (Narrow-Field InfraRed Adaptive Optics System) will be the first-light multi-conjugate adaptive optics system for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).
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TMT NFIRAOS: adaptive optics system for the Thirty Meter Telescope
Glen Herriot,David R. Andersen,Jenny Atwood,Peter Byrnes,Marc-André Boucher,Corinne Boyer,Kris Caputa,Carlos Correia,Jennifer Dunn,Brent Ellerbroek,Joeleff Fitzsimmons,Luc Gilles,Paul Hickson,Alexis Hill,Dan Kerley,John Pazder,Vlad Reshetov,Scott Roberts,Malcolm Smith,Jean-Pierre Véran,Lianqi Wang,Ivan Wevers +21 more
TL;DR: NFIRAOS as mentioned in this paper is the first light adaptive optics system planned for the Thirty Meter Telescope, and is being designed at the National Research Council of Canada's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics.
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First light adaptive optics systems and components for the Thirty Meter Telescope.
Brent Ellerbroek,Sean M. Adkins,David R. Andersen,Jennifer Atwood,Steve Browne,Corinne Boyer,Peter Byrnes,Kris Caputa,Rodolphe Conan,Raphaël Cousty,Daren Erikson,Joeleff Fitzsimmons,Frederick Gamache,Luc Gilles,Glen Herriot,Paul Hickson,Olivier Lardier,Pierre Morin,John Pazder,Thomas Pfrommer,David Quinn,Vladimir Reshetov,Scott Roberts,Jean-Christophe Sinquin,Matthias Schoeck,Malcolm Smith,Glenn A. Tyler,Jeff L. Vaughn,Jean-Pierre Véran,Curt Vogel,Lianqi Wang,Ivan Wevers +31 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an update on the progress in designing, modeling, and validating these systems and their components over the last two years, including work on the layouts and detailed designs of NFIRAOS and the LGSF; fabrication and test of a full-scale prototype tip/tilt stage (TTS); Conceptual Designs Studies for the real-time controller (RTC) hardware and algorithms; fabrication of the detectors for the laser and natural-guide star wavefront sensors; AO system modeling and performance optimization; lab tests of wavefront sensing