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National Solar Observatory. Digital Library Virtual Solar Observatory. ATST Development. Science and Engineering Staff. 18 + 9 Scientist High Resolution Observations, Adaptive Optics, Speckle Spectroscopy, imaging spectroscopy – our remote sensor

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  1. National Solar Observatory Digital Library Virtual Solar Observatory ATST Development Technical Career Workshop

  2. Science and Engineering Staff • 18 + 9 Scientist • High Resolution Observations, Adaptive Optics, Speckle • Spectroscopy, imaging spectroscopy – our remote sensor • Radiative Transfer Diagnostics – needed to make sense of remote sensing • Solar Polarimetry, solar magnetism, magnetic helicity • Wave, atmospheric heating • Oscillation, interior structure of the sun • Synoptic observations, solar variability, input to climate • Instrument design • Optical design • Infrared observations, cameras, spectrographs Technical Career Workshop

  3. Science and Engineering Staff • NSO BASE Programs • 14 Engineers/Technical • 15 Software Engineers/Programmers • 9 Telescope Operators (technical backgrounds) • 18 Scientists • 7 Admin/Business • NSO ATST Project • 16 Engineers • 9 Software • 3 Science • 8 Admin/Documentation/Contracting/Business Technical Career Workshop

  4. Dunn Solar Telescope • Universal Birefringent Filter • Horizontal Spectrograph • Diffraction Limited Stokes Polarimeter (DLSP) • Spectral Polarimeter for Infrared and Optical Regions (SPINOR) • Interferometric Birefringent Imaging Spectrometer (IBIS) • Near IR spectropolarimeter (FIRS) • Simultaneous operation of several cameras and multiple instruments • All instruments can be fed by adaptive optics Technical Career Workshop

  5. Technical Career Workshop

  6. Technical Career Workshop

  7. Multi-instrument setup at DST IBIS, HSG and G-band camera Technical Career Workshop

  8. FIRS – Facility IR Spectropolarimeter FIRS installation at DST complete First science data obtained Multi-slit design – high cadence observations FeI 1564.8/1565.3 nm – Low photosphere FeI 630.15 nm/630.25 nm – mid photosphere CaII 854.2 nm – Low chromosphere HeI 1083 nm – High chromosphere Technical Career Workshop

  9. McMath-Pierce • Vertical Spectrograph • NSO Array Camera • IR adaptive optics • Thermal IR - NASA • Near IR Magnetometer (NIM) I & II • Integrated Field Unit Technical Career Workshop

  10. McM/P science support projects(samples…) • New NAC polarimeter optics mount • Autoguiding with Labview code • Stellar spectrograph beam translator Technical Career Workshop

  11. IFU Technical Career Workshop

  12. SOLIS • Vector Spectromagnetograph (VSM) • Helium-filled 50-cm f/6 telescope • Grating spectrograph with 2048” × 1” field • CMOS hybrid cameras with 1” pixels • Full-disk photospheric vector magnetograms in 24 minutes (3 per day) • Deep full-disk longitudinal photospheric magnetogram (1 per day) • Chromospheric full-disk magnetogram (3 per day) • Helium 1083 nm full-disk coronal proxy (3 per day) Technical Career Workshop

  13. VSM camera swap action shot VSM (Vector Spectromagnetograph) Cameras Remote power supply for camera alignment Technical Career Workshop

  14. Training of Instrumentalists • Something NSO has always done • Currently DST, AO, ATST Programs under Rimmele have had success with both students and Postdocs • Jose Marino, Klaus Hartkorn (NJIT) • Hyun Kyoung An, Jackie Roche, Brian Robinson (U. Alabama, Huntsville) • Murray, Wang, Cao, Tritschler, Denker, Gorceix, Krishnakumar (NJIT) • Schmidt, Waldmann Tatulli, Bierent, Permat, Rousset (MCAO) • Kyle Momenee (Milwaukee School of Engineering, ATST Thermal) • Graduate students involved in instruments for use at NSO • Brian Harker (USU, polarimetry) • Sara Jaeggli (U. Hawai’I, FIRS) • Thomas Schad (U. of Arizona, NAC) • Vincent Tagliamonti (CSUN) • Yan Xu, Jun Ma, Angelo Verdoni, Sung-Hong Park (NJIT) Technical Career Workshop

  15. Training of Instrumentalists • REU Students • Tran, Bibeau-Delisle, Schad (COMP and One Shot Coronagraph) • Cheryl-Annette Kincaid, Northern Texas University, and Walter Allen, Howard University (SERBL) • Urbach (spectroscopy) • Undergraduates at Univ. of Arizona working on SOLIS • *Jessica Goodman (currently physics grad student at UC-Irvine), Nathan Hadder, Alexander Toussaint (currently math grad student at Univ of Colorado) • Alex Fay, Catarina Ubach, Ryan Courreges (data aides) Technical Career Workshop

  16. Future Facilities Synoptic Network SOLIS ATST on Haleakala Digital Library VSO Node GONG NSO HQ Technical Career Workshop

  17. Enclosure Support Structure Telescope Mount Assembly Technical Career Workshop

  18. 3.1 Instrument Lab Facility 3.1.1 Polarimetry Analysis and Calibration 3.1.2 Master Clock & Synchro Network 3.1.3 Coudé Station 3.1.4 Instrument Control System 3.1.5 Coudé Environmental System

  19. First-light Instruments 3.5 Visible Tunable Filter (VTF) KIS 3.2 Visible Broadband Imager (VBI) NSO 3.4.2 Diffraction Limited Near-IR Spectro-polarimeter (DL-NIRSP UH 3.4.1 Cryogenic Near-IR Spectro-polarimeter (Cryo-NIRSP) UH 3.3 Visible Spectro-polarimeter (ViSP) HAO

  20. Enclosure Thermal Systems

  21. Enclosure Thermal Systems

  22. Facility Services Provided • Services Provided • Capacities From Utility building - Power - Chilled Water - Networking - Control Cables - Compressed Air - Refrigerant - Telephone - Water S & O Building - Vacuum - Nitrogen (gas)

  23. Performance Modeling • Finite Element Analysis • Computational Fluid Dynamics • Optical tolerance analysis • Thermal Analysis • Monte Carlo Simulations • Scattered light ray traces • Dynamic optical alignment • Delivered image quality

  24. Operating Locations • Summit Facility – telescope and support structures on the summit • Maui-base – administrative and technical support services, data handling at the mountain base • NSO Headquarters – data center, instrumentation program, business services Technical Career Workshop

  25. Science Operations Staffing • Resident Astronomers • Data Scientists • WFC Scientist • Instrument Scientist s • ATST Fellows Technical Career Workshop

  26. Telescope Operation Staff • Chief Operator (Associate in Research III) • Operator (Associate in Research II) • Operator (Associate in Research II) • Operator (Associate in Research II) • Operator (Associate in Research I) • Operator (Associate in Research I) Technical Career Workshop

  27. Technical and Engineering Telescope Support • Engineering Manager • Electronics Engineer, Dept. Head • Electronics Engineer • Electronics Technician • Electronics Technician • Software Engineer, Dept. Head • Software Engineer • Software Engineer • Software Engineer • Instrument Engineer • Mechanical Engineer, Dept. Head • Controls Engineer/System Engineer • Optical-Mechanical Engineer • Thermal Engineer • Machinist Technical Career Workshop

  28. Instrument Development Team • Project Manager/Lead Engineer • Electronics Technician • Electronics Engineer • Optical Engineer • Optical Technician • Software Engineer • Mechanical Engineer • Machinist • Instrumentation Engineer • Instrument Technician Technical Career Workshop

  29. Data and Information Systems • Systems Administrator • Network Technician • Data Technician • Data Technician • Data Technician • Programmer • Programmer Technical Career Workshop

  30. Support Staff • Administration staff • Outreach staff Technical Career Workshop

  31. Education and Public Outreach • 2011 Summer Program • 6 REU Students (4 female, 2 male) • 5 Akamai SRAs • 2 Graduate SRAs • 3 RETs • Current Thesis using NSO resources • Michael Kirk (NMSU), Tom Schad (UofA), Mathew Richards (Fisk/Vanderbilt) • Akamai Workshops (Nov 2010, 2011) • IRES – 4 student in 2011 (managed by NSO/GONG) SOC Meeting

  32. Brian Behnia University of Hawaii, Hilo Advisors: Friedrich W “Building a GUI for Speckle Image Reconstruction” Darcy Bibb University of Hawaii, Manoa Advisors: Thomas Rimmele & Kit Richards “Adaptive Optics, Wave Front Correction” Technical Career Workshop

  33. James S. Linden (Grad) University of Hawaii, Manoa Advisors: LeEllen Phelps & Mark Warner “Behavior of a Horizontal Air Curtain Subjected to A vertical Pressure Gradient” Jennifer T. Takaki (Undergrad) University of Hawaii, Manoa Advisors: Ed Stover & Kim Streande “SOLIS Guider documentation” Technical Career Workshop

  34. Stephen L. Keil, NSO Director skeil@nso.edu 1-575-434-7039 for more information visit http://www.nso.edu Contact Information Technical Career Workshop

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