Recent progress at the MIRA: development of fringe tracking system

Author(s):  
Naoko Ohishi ◽  
Masanori Yoshizawa ◽  
Jun Nishikawa ◽  
Naoshi Murakami ◽  
Yasuo Torii ◽  
...  
1995 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
D.J. Hutter ◽  
K.J. Johnston ◽  
D. Mozurkewich

The U.S. Naval Observatory Astrometric Optical Interferometer (AOI) began operation on Anderson Mesa, near Flagstaff, Arizona, in the autumn of 1994. The AOI incorporates four siderostats that are located in a Y-shaped configuration, and features a full-array laser metrology system to monitor baseline motion. The AOI incorporates state-of-the-art delay lines and a real-time fringe-tracking system. The AOI will have a limiting visual magnitude of 10, under typical observing conditions, and will produce star positions accurate to a few milliarcseconds (mas). With a planned operational lifetime of several decades, this instrument will be capable of maintaining the optical reference frame by improving the proper motions of thousands of the brighter HIPPARCOS stars through repeated observations.


Author(s):  
Edgar R. Ligon ◽  
David F. Buscher ◽  
Michelle Creech-Eakman ◽  
Fernando G. Santoro ◽  
Chris D. Salcido ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Teruo Someya ◽  
Jinzo Kobayashi

Recent progress in the electron-mirror microscopy (EMM), e.g., an improvement of its resolving power together with an increase of the magnification makes it useful for investigating the ferroelectric domain physics. English has recently observed the domain texture in the surface layer of BaTiO3. The present authors ) have developed a theory by which one can evaluate small one-dimensional electric fields and/or topographic step heights in the crystal surfaces from their EMM pictures. This theory was applied to a quantitative study of the surface pattern of BaTiO3).


Author(s):  
Dawn A. Bonnell ◽  
Yong Liang

Recent progress in the application of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and tunneling spectroscopy (STS) to oxide surfaces has allowed issues of image formation mechanism and spatial resolution limitations to be addressed. As the STM analyses of oxide surfaces continues, it is becoming clear that the geometric and electronic structures of these surfaces are intrinsically complex. Since STM requires conductivity, the oxides in question are transition metal oxides that accommodate aliovalent dopants or nonstoichiometry to produce mobile carriers. To date, considerable effort has been directed toward probing the structures and reactivities of ZnO polar and nonpolar surfaces, TiO2 (110) and (001) surfaces and the SrTiO3 (001) surface, with a view towards integrating these results with the vast amount of previous surface analysis (LEED and photoemission) to build a more complete understanding of these surfaces. However, the spatial localization of the STM/STS provides a level of detail that leads to conclusions somewhat different from those made earlier.


Author(s):  
Paul A. Wetzel ◽  
Gretchen Krueger-Anderson ◽  
Christine Poprik ◽  
Peter Bascom

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