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Selected formal technical publications related to the LDT systems or to helping you understand the background for some of the systems.

A good example would SPIE papers. The links are to full PDF copies.

LDT/DCT specific
  1. Bida, T. A., et al. 2004, Proc. SPIE, 5489, 196, Site testing for the Discovery Channel Telescope
  2. Bida, T. A., et al. 2012, Proc. SPIE, 8444, 192, Design, development, and testing of the DCT Cassegrain instrument support assembly 
  3. Bida, T., et al. 2014, Proc. SPIE, 9147, 914796, 11pp.. First-generation instrumentation for the Discovery Channel Telescope
  4. Clark, C., et al. 2020, Proc. SPIE, 11446, 114462A, The optomechanical design of the Quad-camera Wavefront-sensing Six- channel Speckle Interferometer (QWSSI)
  5. Cornelius, F., Sweaton, M., Hardesty, B., Collins, M., Levine, S. 2020, Proc. SPIE, 11445, 114457I, 9pp, Status and performance of Lowell Observatory's Lowell Discovery Telescope's active optical support system
  6. DeGroff, W. T., et al. 2014, Proc. SPIE, 9145, 914582, 18pp., Status and performance of the Discovery Channel Telescope from commissioning into early science operations
  7. Dunham, E. et al. 2018, Proc. SPIE, 10702, 107023E, NIHTS: the near-infrared high throughput spectrograph for the Discovery Channel Telescope
  8. Gustafsson, A. et al. 2021, PASP, 133, 035001, Science Commissioning of NIHTS: The Near-infrared High Throughput Spectrograph on the Lowell Discovery Telescope
  9. Levine, S. E. et al. 2012, Proc. SPIE, 8444, 844419, Status and performance of the Discovery Channel Telescope during commissioning
  10. Levine, S. E., DeGroff, W. T. 2016, Proc. SPIE, 9906, 990672, Status and imaging performance of Lowell Observatory’s Discovery Channel Telescope in its first year of full science operations
  11. Levine, S., DeGroff, W., Bida, T., Dunham, E., Jacoby, G. 2018, Proc. SPIE, 10700, 107004P, Status and performance of Lowell Observatory's Discovery Channel telescope and its growing suite of instruments
  12. Levine, S. E., Ellsworth-Bowers, T., Bida, T. A., Hamilton, R., Kuehn, K. 2022, Proc. SPIE, 12182, 1218227L, Status of the Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) and assessment of the image quality at the focal plane
  13. Mace, G. et al. 2018, Proc. SPIE, 10702, 107020Q, IGRINS at the Discovery Channel telescope and Gemini South
  14. Venetiou, A. J., Bida, T. A. 2012, Proc. SPIE, 8444, 84441E,  Discovery Channel Telescope active optics system early integration and test
More general references useful to LDT/DCT
  1. Fried, D. L. 1965, J. Opt. Soc. Am., 55, 1427, Statistics of a Geometric Representation of a Wavefront Distortion
  2. Fried, D. L. 1966, J. Opt. Soc. Am., 56, 1372, Optical resolution through a randomly inhomogeneous medium for very long and very short exposures
  3. Lakshminarayanan, V., Fleck, A. 2011, JMOp, 58, 545, Zernike polynomials: a guide
  4. Noll, R. 1976, JOSA, 66, 207, Zernike polynomials and atmospheric turbulence
  5. Schwesinger, G., 1991, JMOp, 38, 1507, Lateral support of very large telescope mirrors by edge forces only
  6. Wallace, P. T. 2002, Proc. of SPIE, 4848, 125, A rigorous algorithm for telescope pointing
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