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Nicholas MacDonald
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 12
Citations - 377
Nicholas MacDonald is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Spectrograph & Spectral resolution. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 12 publications receiving 302 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicholas MacDonald include University of California, Santa Cruz.
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SDSS-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
Juna A. Kollmeier,Gail Zasowski,Hans-Walter Rix,Matt Johns,Scott F. Anderson,Niv Drory,Jennifer A. Johnson,Richard W. Pogge,Jonathan C. Bird,Guillermo A. Blanc,Joel R. Brownstein,Jeffrey D. Crane,Nathan De Lee,M. Klaene,Kathryn Kreckel,Nicholas MacDonald,Andrea Merloni,Melissa Ness,Thomas P. O'Brien,José R. Sánchez-Gallego,Conor Sayres,Yue Shen,Ani Thakar,Andrew Tkachenko,Conny Aerts,Michael R. Blanton,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Jon A. Holtzman,Dan Maoz,Kirpal Nandra,Constance M. Rockosi,David H. Weinberg,Jo Bovy,Andrew R. Casey,Julio Chanamé,N. Clerc,Charlie Conroy,Michael Eracleous,Boris T. Gänsicke,Saskia Hekker,Keith Horne,Jens Kauffmann,Kristen B. W. McQuinn,Eric W. Pellegrini,Eva Schinnerer,Edward F. Schlafly,Axel Schwope,Mark Seibert,Johanna Teske,Jennifer L. van Saders +49 more
TL;DR: SDSS-V as discussed by the authors is an all-sky, multi-epoch spectroscopic survey of over six million objects designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, trace the emergence of the chemical elements, reveal the inner workings of stars, and investigate the origin of planets.
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The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) Spectrographs
John C. Wilson,Frederick R. Hearty,Mike Skrutskie,Steve Majewski,Jon A. Holtzman,Daniel J. Eisenstein,James E. Gunn,Basil Blank,Calen B. Henderson,Stephen A. Smee,Matthew J. Nelson,David L. Nidever,James A. Arns,Robert H. Barkhouser,J. Barr,Stephane Beland,Matthew A. Bershady,Michael R. Blanton,Sophia Brunner,Andrew J. Burton,Larry N. Carey,Michael A. Carr,J. P. Colque,Jeff Crane,G. J. Damke,G. J. Damke,James W. Davidson,Janice D. R. Dean,F. Di Mille,K. W. Don,Garrett Ebelke,Michael L. Evans,Greg Fitzgerald,Bruce Gillespie,Matthew Hall,Al Harding,Paul Harding,Rosemarie W. Hammond,D. Hancock,C. Harrison,Stephen C. Hope,T. Horne,J. Karakla,Charles R. Lam,F. Leger,Nicholas MacDonald,Paul Maseman,J. Matsunari,S. Melton,T. Mitcheltree,Thomas P. O'Brien,Robert W. O'Connell,Alim Y. Patten,W. Richardson,George H. Rieke,Marcia J. Rieke,Alexandre Roman-Lopes,Ricardo P. Schiavon,Jennifer Sobeck,T. Stolberg,R. Stoll,Mita Tembe,J. D. Trujillo,A. Uomoto,M. Vernieri,E. Walker,David H. Weinberg,Erick T. Young,B. Anthony-Brumfield,Dmitry Bizyaev,Dmitry Bizyaev,Ben Breslauer,N. De Lee,N. De Lee,J. Downey,Samuel Halverson,Joseph Huehnerhoff,Mark A. Klaene,E. Leon,Dan Long,Suvrath Mahadevan,Elena Malanushenko,D. C. Nguyen,Russell Owen,José R. Sánchez-Gallego,Conor Sayres,N. Shane,Stephen A. Shectman,Matthew Shetrone,D. Skinner,Fritz Stauffer,Bo Zhao +91 more
TL;DR: The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) as mentioned in this paper is a survey of ~ 10^5 red giant stars that systematically sampled all Milky Way populations (bulge, disk, and halo) to study the Galaxy's chemical and kinematical history.
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Update on the preliminary design of SCALES: the Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy
R. Deno Stelter,R. Deno Stelter,Andrew J. Skemer,Andrew J. Skemer,Steph Sallum,Renate Kupke,Philip Hinz,Dimitri Mawet,Rebecca Jensen-Clem,Rebecca Jensen-Clem,Christopher Ratliffe,Nicholas MacDonald,William Deich,Gabriel Kruglikov,Marc Kassis,James E. Lyke,Zackary Briesemeister,Brittany E. Miles,Benjamin L. Gerard,Benjamin L. Gerard,Michael P. Fitzgerald,Timothy D. Brandt,Christian Marois +22 more
TL;DR: SCALES as discussed by the authors is a 2-5 micron high contrast lenslet integral field spectrograph (IFS) driven by exoplanet characterization science requirements and will operate at W. M. Keck Observatory.
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WFOS instrument trade study: slicer vs. fiber instrument concept designs and results (Conference Presentation)
Kevin Bundy,Maureen Savage,Renate Kupke,Nicholas MacDonald,Kyle B. Westfall,Matthew Radovan,Zheng Cai,Brian Digiorgio,Richard Dekany,Devika Divakar,Jason Fucik,Hangxin Ji,Satoshi Miyazaki,Shinobu Ozaki,Andrew C. Phillips,Namrata Roy,Roger Smith,Arun Surya,S. Sriram,Sivarani Thirupathi,Toshihiro Tsuzuki +20 more
TL;DR: The baseline WFOS design is described, an overview of the two trade study concepts is provided, and the process used to down-select between the two options is provided.
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Update on the Preliminary Design of SCALES: the Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy.
R. Deno Stelter,R. Deno Stelter,Andrew J. Skemer,Andrew J. Skemer,Steph Sallum,Renate Kupke,Philip Hinz,Dimitri Mawet,Rebecca Jensen-Clem,Rebecca Jensen-Clem,Christopher Ratliffe,Nicholas MacDonald,William Deich,Gabriel Kruglikov,Marc Kassis,James E. Lyke,Zackary Briesemeister,Brittany E. Miles,Benjamin L. Gerard,Benjamin L. Gerard,Michael P. Fitzgerald,Timothy D. Brandt,Christian Marois +22 more
TL;DR: SCALES as discussed by the authors is a 2-5 micron high contrast lenslet integral field spectrograph (IFS) driven by exoplanet characterization science requirements and will operate at W. M. Keck Observatory.