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Recent Publications
A Cryogenic, Liquid-mirror Telescope on the Moon, to Study the Early Universe
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  Roger Angel, Simon P. Worden, Ermanno F. Borra, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Bernard Foing, Paul Hickson, Jean-Luc Josset, Ki Bui Ma, Omar Seddiki, Suresh Sivanandam, Simon Thibault, Paul van Susante
ApJ, 680, 1562, 2008.
TOPS: A small space telescope using phase induced-amplitude apodization (PIAA) to image rocky and giant exo-planets
../publications/TOPS SPIE paper with Guyon 807.pdf
  Olivier Guyon, James R. P. Angel, Charles Bowers, James Burge, Adam Burrows, Johanan Codona, Thomas Greene, Masanori Iye, James Kasting, Hubert Martin, Donald W. McCarthy, Jr., Victoria Meadows, Michael Meyer, Eugene A. Pluzhnik, Norman Sleep, Motohide Ta
SPIE Proc. Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets III, 6693, 66930J-1-66930J-11, ed. Daniel R. Coulter, San Diego, 2007
Multi-laser-guided adaptive optics for the Large Binocular Telescope
../publications/MLH AO LBT paper.pdf
  M. Lloyd-Hart, R. Angel, R. Green, T. Stalcup, n. M. Milton, and K. Powell
SPIE Proc. Astronomical Adaptive Optics Systems and Applications III, 6691, 66910O-1 – 66910O-14, eds. Robert K. Tyson and Michael Lloyd-Hart, San Diego, 2007.
Status of the MMT Observatory Multiple Laser Beacon Projector
../publications/Status of MMT stalcup angel.pdf
  Thomas E. Stalcup, Jr., Roger Angel, Michael Lloyd-Hart, Matthew J. Rademacher
SPIE Proc. Astronomical Adaptive Optics Systems and Applications III, 6691, 66910M-1 – 66910M-11, eds. Robert K. Tyson and Michael Lloyd-Hart, San Diego, 2007.
Astronomical imaging using ground-layer adaptive optics
../publications/Baranec SPIE 807.pdf
  Christoph Baranec, Michael Lloyd-Hart, N. Mark Milton, Thomas Stalcup, Miguel Snyder, Vidhya Vaitheeswaran, Don McCarthy, and Roger Angel
SPIE Proc. Astronomical Adaptive Optics Systems and Applications III, 6691, 66910N-1-66910N-11, eds. Robert K. Tyson and Michael Lloyd-Hart, San Diego, 2007.
Active thermal figure control concept for the TOPS II primary mirror
../publications/Active thermal Angel and Tae SPIE aug 07.pdf
  Roger Angel, Tae Kang, Brian Cuerden, Olivier Guyon, and Phil Stahl
SPIE Proc. Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets III, 6693, 669313-1-669313-5, ed. Daniel R. Coulter, San Diego, 2007
Deposition of metal films on an ionic liquid as a basis for a lunar telescope
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  Ermanno F. Borra, Omar Seddiki, Roger Angel, Daniel Eisenstein, Paul Hickson, Kenneth R. Seddon, & Simon P. Worden
Nature, 447, 979-981, 2007
Loki: a ground-layer adaptive optics high-resolution near-infrared survey camera
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  Christoph Baranec, Michael Lloyd-Hart, and Michael Meyer
Proc. SPIE Astronomical Adaptive Optics systems and Applications III, eds. R. Tyson & M. Lloyd-Hart, 6691, 669106-1-669106-9, 2007.
Real-time atmospheric turbulence profile estimation using modal covariance measurements from multiple guide stars
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  N. Mark Milton, Michael Lloyd-Hart, Jessica A. Bernier, and Christoph Baranec
Proc. SPIE Astronomical Adaptive Optics systems and Applications III, eds. R. Tyson & M. Lloyd-Hart, 6691, 66910B-1-66910B-9, 2007.
Astronomical imaging using ground-layer adaptive optics
../publications/SPIE_6991-0N.pdf
  Christoph Baranec, Michael Lloyd-Hart, N. Mark Milton, Thomas Stalcup, Miguel Snyder, Vidhya Vaitheeswaran, Don McCarthy, and Roger Angel
Proc. SPIE Astronomical Adaptive Optics systems and Applications III, eds. R. Tyson & M. Lloyd-Hart, 6691, 66910M-1-66910M-11, 2007.
A direct and differential imaging search for sub-stellar companions to ? Indi A
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  Geißler, K.; Kellner, S.; Brandner, W.; Masciadri, E.; Hartung, M.; Henning, T.; Lenzen, R.; Close, L.; Endl, M.; Kürster, M.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2007, Volume 461, Issue 2, January II 2007, pp.665-668
Discovery of Nine New Companions to Nearby Young M Stars with the Altair AO System
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  Daemgen, Sebastian; Siegler, Nick; Reid, I. Neill; Close, Laird M.
The Astrophysical Journal, 2007, Volume 654, Issue 1, pp. 558-569.
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