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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Wallace Astrophysical Observatory."”.
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Extrasolar planet transit photometry at Wallace Astrophysical Observatory
… program for extrasolar planet transits at Wallace Astrophysical Observatory (WAO), which houses the 24-inch telescope used in this work. The purpose of this thesis is to enable students and faculty to easily perform transit photometry at WAO and assess the feasibility of transit photometry …
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Evaluation, design, and construction of the Wallace Astrophysical Observatory Camera for astronomical observations
… Cassegrain reflector telescope at the George R. Wallace, Jr. Astrophysical Observatory (Wallace Observatory), part of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The upgrade consists of evaluating, designing and constructing the Wallace Astrophysical Observatory Camera (WAOcam), optimized for …
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Optical analysis of the Wallace Astrophysical Observatory 24-inch and Magellan I 6.5-meter telescopes
… of this thesis is to propose a layout for the Wallace Astrophysical Observatory (WAO) 24-inch optical system that would utilize the full potential of the telescope and a new CCD imaging instrument. An optical analysis of the 6.5-meter Magellan I telescope was first performed to determine the …
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Direction of spin of Koronis family member (1289) Kutaïssi
… Kutaïssi were taken in January, 2003, at MIT's Wallace Astrophysical Observatory. The goal of these observations included obtaining a precise rotation period and direction of rotation for the asteroid extracted from data obtained in two different filters. By combining the new data with data from …
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Demonstration of Wallace Astrophysical Observatory's 24-inch telescope upgrade
… of an ongoing effort to renovate the George R. Wallace Astrophysical Observatory, a new control system and imaging instrument were implemented for the 24-inch telescope. A redesigned telescope drive mechanism and an adaptation of the Lowell Observatory MOVE control system were installed to …
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A transit-timing variation study of the extrasolar planet TrES-3
… System (POETS) detectors [7] mounted on the Wallace Astrophysical Observatory (WAO) 0.8m and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) 3m telescopes are used to observe five stellar transit events of the extrasolar planet TrES-3 [5]. Model light curves are fit to the five data sets and transit …
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A Photometric Investigation of the Major Uranian Satellites
… a photometric study, primarily using MIT’s Wallace Astrophysical Observatory, and report the lightcurves of Titania and Oberon in the Sloan g’, r’, and i’ filters. Further observations from larger telescopes are needed, but these data may indicate that ice on both Titania and Oberon has …
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Transit timing variations of the exoplanet K2-25b
… taken using 14-inch and 24-inch telescopes at Wallace Astrophysical Observatory. Two transit light curves were fit using an MCMC implementation to find the orbital period, planetary radius, and semi-major axis. A new period calculation yielded an orbital period of 3.48457 +/-0.00004, consistent …
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Magellan Instant Camera testbed
… at MIT and is currently used at Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) in La Serena, Chile. It is designed to be both simple and efficient with minimal optics between the telescope port and the detector, a high quantum efficiency and throughput detector, a CryoTiger® self-contained, cooling system …
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Spin directions of asteroids : lightcurve analysis of Koronis family members 158 Koronis and 720 Bohlinia
… 720 Bohlinia. Observations were made at the MIT Wallace Astrophysical Observatory in Westford, Massachusetts during 1999. Both of the targets were determined to have a retrograde sense of rotation, which is in agreement with the previously known sense of rotation of Koronis family member 243 Ida. …