Dr. Warren Skidmore Profile

Dr. Warren Skidmore

TMT Instrumentation System Scientist at Thirty Meter Telescope

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Publications (31)

Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Poster + Paper

Configurable slit unit versus slit mask exchanger trade study for the TMT wide field optical spectrometer

Alastair Heptonstall, David Andersen, Warren Skidmore, Reston Nash, Jason Fucik, Charles Steidel, Eric Peng, George Jacoby, John Miles

Proceedings Volume 13099, 130992S (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020676

KEYWORDS: Design, Equipment, Reliability, Observatories, Telescopes, Prototyping, Spectroscopy, Computer aided design, Molybdenum, Imaging spectroscopy

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Proceedings Article | 1 August 2024 Poster + Paper

The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS): project status report

Kanaka Warad, David Andersen, James Larkin, Shelley Wright, Robert Weber, Ryuji Suzuki, Renate Kupke, Jennifer Dunn, Jennifer Atwood, Warren Skidmore, John Miles, Takashi Nakamoto

Proceedings Volume 13096, 13096AI (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020699

KEYWORDS: Infrared Imaging Spectrograph, Imaging systems, Design, Equipment, Sensors, Observatories, Fabrication, Adaptive optics, Thirty Meter Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, Astronomical instrumentation, Near infrared spectroscopy, Astronomical telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Poster + Paper

Design of the configurable slit unit for the Wide Field Optical Spectrometer (WFOS)

Reston Nash, Jake Zimmer, Jason Fucik, Charles Steidel, Eric Peng, David Andersen, George Jacoby, John Miles, Warren Skidmore, Alastair Heptonstall

Proceedings Volume 13096, 130965X (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019102

KEYWORDS: Design, Spectroscopy, Computer aided design, Astronomy, Solid modeling, Prototyping, Equipment, Thirty Meter Telescope, Observatories, Imaging spectroscopy

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Proceedings Article | 5 October 2023 Presentation + Paper

The development of HISPEC for Keck and MODHIS for TMT: science cases and predicted sensitivities

Quinn Konopacky, Ashley Baker, Dimitri Mawet, Michael Fitzgerald, Nemanja Jovanovic, Charles Beichman, Garreth Ruane, Rob Bertz, Hiroshi Terada, Richard Dekany, Larry Lingvay, Marc Kassis, David Anderson, Motohide Tamura, Björn Benneke, Thomas Beatty, Tuan Do, Shogo Nishiyama, Peter Plavchan, Jason Wang, Ji Wang, Adam Burgasser, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Huihao Zhang, Aaron Brown, Jason Fucik, Aidan Gibbs, Rose Gibson, Sam Halverson, Christopher Johnson, Sonia Karkar, Takayuki Kotani, Evan Kress, Stephanie Leifer, Kenneth Magnone, Jerome Maire, Rishi Pahuja, Michael Porter, Mitsuko Roberts, Ben Sappey, Jim Thorne, Eric Wang, Etienne Artigau, Geoffrey Blake, Gabriela Canalizo, Guo Chen, Greg Doppmann, René Doyon, Courtney Dressing, Min Fang, Thomas Greene, Greg Herczeg, Lynne Hillenbrand, Andrew Howard, Stephen Kane, Tiffany Kataria, Eliza Kempton, Heather Knutson, David Lafrenière, Chao Liu, Stanimir Metchev, Max Millar-Blanchaer, Norio Narita, Gajendra Pandey, S.P. Rajaguru, Paul Robertson, Colette Salyk, Bun'ei Sato, Evertt Schlawin, Sujan Sengupta, Thirupathi Sivarani, Warren Skidmore, Gautam Vasisht, Chikako Yasui, Hui Zhang

Proceedings Volume 12680, 1268007 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2681522

KEYWORDS: Planets, Stars, Exoplanets, Spectrographs, Atmospheres, Spectroscopy, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 30 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

Towards the development of the Infrared Guide Star Catalogue for the adaptive optics observations by the Thirty Meter Telescope

Sarang Shah, Smitha Subramanian, G. Anupama, Francisco Delgado, Kim Gillies, Maheshwar Gopinathan, Rajalakshmi Narayanan, A. Ramaprakash, Suhasini Rao, B. Reddy, Warren Skidmore, T. Sivarani, Annapurni Subramaniam

Proceedings Volume 12185, 1218506 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629775

KEYWORDS: Near infrared, Stars, Atmospheric modeling, Adaptive optics, Thirty Meter Telescope, Data modeling, Infrared radiation, Photometry, Infrared telescopes, Telescopes

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SPIE Journal Paper | 16 May 2022

Instrument programs of the Extremely Large Class Telescopes

Warren Skidmore, Rebecca Bernstein, Christophe Dumas, Robert Goodrich, Rafael Millan-Gabet, Suzanne Ramsay, Tony Travouillon, Joël Vernet

JATIS, Vol. 8, Issue 02, 021510, (May 2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.8.2.021510

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectrographs, Observatories, Imaging systems, Adaptive optics, Calibration, Spectral resolution, Stars, Imaging spectroscopy, Near infrared

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SPIE Journal Paper | 11 May 2022 Open Access

End-to-end science operations in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes

Olivier Hainaut, Marie Lemoine-Busserolle, Christophe Dumas, Robert Goodrich, Bryan W. Miller, Michael Sterzik, Thomas Bierwirth, Sidney Wolff, Andrew Stephens, Gelys Trancho, Warren Skidmore, Kim Gillies

JATIS, Vol. 8, Issue 02, 021508, (May 2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.8.2.021508

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Telescopes, Large telescopes, Data archive systems, Calibration, Astronomy, Interfaces, Databases, Data processing, Gemini Observatory

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Proceedings Article | 16 February 2021 Poster + Paper

The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: exposure time calculator for IRIS

Gregory Walth, Arun Surya, Nils-Erik Rundquist, Shelley Wright, Maren Cosens, Andrey Vayner, Eric Oh, Jacob Llamas, Warren Skidmore, Eric Chisholm, James Larkin

Proceedings Volume 11452, 1145236 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563029

KEYWORDS: IRIS Consortium, Infrared Imaging Spectrograph, Adaptive optics, Atmospheric optics, Atmospheric modeling, Astronomy, Signal to noise ratio, Infrared imaging, Thermography, Infrared radiation

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation

The operations of the Thirty Meter Telescope

Christophe Dumas, Francisco Delgado, Kim Gillies, Angel Otarola, Matthias Schöck, Warren Skidmore, Gelys Trancho, Jason Weiss

Proceedings Volume 11449, 1144903 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562084

KEYWORDS: Systems modeling

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

Inclusion in an international training program for early-career engineers and scientists in the Thirty Meter Telescope partnership

Nicholas McConnell, Austin Barnes, Warren Skidmore, Renate Kupke, Jessica Lu, Scott Roberts, Ravinder Bhatia, Sandra Dawson, Gary Sanders, Lisa Hunter

Proceedings Volume 11449, 114491O (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2575654

KEYWORDS: Thirty Meter Telescope, Reflectivity, Large telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 11 July 2018 Paper

Estimation of polarization aberrations and its effect on the point spread function of the Thirty Meter Telescope

Ramya Anche, G. C. Anupama, S. Sriram, K. Sankarasubramanian, Warren Skidmore

Proceedings Volume 10703, 107034K (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312506

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Polarization, Point spread functions, Telescopes, Coating, Thirty Meter Telescope, Adaptive optics, Monochromatic aberrations, Zemax, Reflection

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SPIE Journal Paper | 22 January 2018

Analysis of polarization introduced due to the telescope optics of the Thirty Meter Telescope

Ramya Manjunath Anche, Asoke Kumar Sen, Gadiyara Chakrapani Anupama, Kasiviswanathan Sankarasubramanian, Warren Skidmore

JATIS, Vol. 4, Issue 01, 018003, (January 2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.4.1.018003

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Polarization, Telescopes, Thirty Meter Telescope, Reflection, Polarimetry, Ray tracing, Calibration, Error analysis, Silver

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Proceedings Article | 15 June 2015 Paper

Analytical modelling of Thirty Meter Telescope optics polarization

Ramya Anche, G. Anupama, Krishna Reddy, Asoke Sen, K. Sankarasubramanian, A. Ramaprakash, Sujan Sengupta, Warren Skidmore, Jenny Atwood, Sivarani Tirupathi, Shashi Bhushan Pandey

Proceedings Volume 9654, 965408 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2181397

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Polarization, Telescopes, Zemax, Modeling, Instrument modeling, Mueller matrices, Polarimetry, Coating, Thirty Meter Telescope

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Proceedings Article | 4 August 2014 Paper

Polarimetric analysis of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) for modeling instrumental polarization characteristics

Jenny Atwood, Warren Skidmore, G. Anupama, Ramya Anche, Krishna Reddy, Asoke Sen

Proceedings Volume 9150, 915013 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056965

KEYWORDS: Polarization, Polarimetry, Telescopes, Instrument modeling, Zemax, Coating, Adaptive optics, Systems modeling, Stars, Thirty Meter Telescope

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Proceedings Article | 25 September 2012 Paper

Local thermal seeing modeling validation through observatory measurements

Konstantinos Vogiatzis, Angel Otarola, Warren Skidmore, Tony Travouillon, George Angeli

Proceedings Volume 8449, 844902 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.927182

KEYWORDS: Turbulence, Telescopes, Domes, Observatories, Signal detection, Mirrors, Refractive index, Fluctuations and noise, Image quality, Sensors

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Proceedings Article | 17 September 2012 Paper

Dust concentration and soil properties at the TMT candidate sites

S. Els, R. Riddle, M. Schöck, W. Skidmore, T. Travouillon

Proceedings Volume 8444, 844468 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926863

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Soil science, Atmospheric optics, Current controlled current source, Nickel, Atmospheric monitoring, Surface properties, Sensors, Head, Thirty Meter Telescope

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2010 Paper

Primary mirror dynamic disturbance models for TMT: vibration and wind

Douglas MacMynowski, M. Mark Colavita, Warren Skidmore, Konstantinos Vogiatzis

Proceedings Volume 7738, 77380E (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857395

KEYWORDS: Actuators, Mirrors, Turbulence, Servomechanisms, Adaptive optics, Telescopes, Data modeling, Systems modeling, Wind energy, Control systems design

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Proceedings Article | 7 August 2010 Paper

Experiments at the W.M. Keck Observatory to support the Thirty Meter Telescope design work

Warren Skidmore, Tony Travouillon, Reed Riddle, Kyle Kinoshita, Richard Johnston, Phil Murg, Hugh Thompson, Richard Matsuda, Mark Colavita, Grant Tolleth, Robert Goodrich, Elizabeth Chock, Hilton Lewis, Sergey Panteleev

Proceedings Volume 7733, 773350 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857960

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Sensors, Mirrors, Acoustics, Domes, Humidity, Systems modeling, Temperature metrology, Thirty Meter Telescope, Optical instrument design

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Proceedings Article | 6 August 2010 Paper

Monitoring of the environmental conditions inside the dome of the 4m Blanco Telescope at CTIO

S. Els, T. M. Abbott, E. Bustos, J. Seguel, D. Walker, A. Berdja, R. Riddle, M. Schöck, W. Skidmore, T. Travouillon

Proceedings Volume 7733, 77333X (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856297

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Domes, Environmental monitoring, Sensors, Current controlled current source, Ultrasonics, 3D metrology, Charge-coupled devices, Imaging systems, Atmospheric monitoring

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Proceedings Article | 5 August 2010 Paper

Optical turbulence above mountains seen in 3D

S. G. Els, K. Vogiatzis, A. Otárola, R. Riddle, M. Schöck, W. Skidmore, T. Travouillon

Proceedings Volume 7733, 77331Q (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856304

KEYWORDS: Optical turbulence, 3D metrology, Turbulence, Telescopes, Current controlled current source, Atmospheric optics, Wavefront distortions, Optical telescopes, Optical testing, Scintillation

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Proceedings Article | 13 July 2010 Paper

Open questions in site characterization and turbulence parameter measurements

Matthias Schöck, Sebastian Els, Angel Otárola, Reed Riddle, Warren Skidmore, Tony Travouillon

Proceedings Volume 7736, 77361Z (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857412

KEYWORDS: Turbulence, Telescopes, Observatories, Adaptive optics, Clouds, Astronomy, Sensors, Climate change, Sodium, Thirty Meter Telescope

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Proceedings Article | 17 July 2008 Paper

Sampling the ground layer of the atmosphere at Dome C using fast sonic-anemometers

T. Travouillon, E. Aristidi, E. Fossat, J. Lawrence, D. Mekarnia, A. Moore, A. Skidmore, J. W. V. Storey

Proceedings Volume 7012, 70124B (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788503

KEYWORDS: Turbulence, Telescopes, Temperature metrology, Wind measurement, Observatories, Space telescopes, Humidity, Sun, Astronomy, Sensors

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