Mr. David E. Walker Profile

David E. Walker

at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

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Publications (9)

Proceedings Article | 6 August 2010 Paper

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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 | 10 July 2008 Paper

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Inuksuit: robotic astronomical site-testing stations in the Canadian High Arctic

Eric Steinbring, Brian Leckie, Paul Welle, Tim Hardy, Bruce Cole, Dell Bayne, Bryce Croll, David Walker, Raymond Carlberg, Gregory Fahlman, Brad Wallace, Paul Hickson

Proceedings Volume 7012, 70121V (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789531

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Satellites, Control systems, Satellite imaging, Telescopes, Iridium, Satellite communications, Telecommunications, Astronomy, Computer simulations

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2008 Paper

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Status of the Thirty Meter Telescope site selection program

Matthias Schöck, Sebastian Els, Reed Riddle, Warren Skidmore, Tony Travouillon, Robert Blum, Edison Bustos, Paul Gillett, Brooke Gregory, Jerry Nelson, Angel Otarola, Juan Seguel, Joselino Vasquez, Konstantinos Vogiatzis, David Walker, Lianqi Wang

Proceedings Volume 7012, 70121X (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789704

KEYWORDS: Calibration, Temperature metrology, Telescopes, Observatories, Sensors, Turbulence, Astronomy, Clouds, Satellites, Thirty Meter Telescope

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2008 Paper

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Using All Sky Cameras to determine cloud statistics for the Thirty Meter Telescope candidate sites

Warren Skidmore, Matthias Schöck, Eugene Magnier, David Walker, Dan Feldman, Reed Riddle, Sebastian Els, Tony Travouillon, Edison Bustos, Juan Seguel, Joselino Vasquez, Robert Blum, Paul Gillett, Brooke Gregory

Proceedings Volume 7012, 701224 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788141

KEYWORDS: Clouds, Cameras, Telescopes, Stars, Adaptive optics, Statistical analysis, Atmospheric optics, Optical filters, Scanning probe microscopy, Thirty Meter Telescope

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2008 Paper

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An analysis of light pollution at the Thirty Meter Telescope candidate sites

Reed Riddle, David Walker, Matthias Schöck, Sebastian Els, Warren Skidmore, Tony Travouillon, Edison Bustos, Juan Seguel, Joselino Vasquez, Robert Blum, Paul Gillett, Brooke Gregory

Proceedings Volume 7012, 701223 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.787295

KEYWORDS: Pollution, Telescopes, Light, Astronomy, Light scattering, Optical testing, Clouds, Cameras, Image analysis, Thirty Meter Telescope

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2008 Paper

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Temporal variability of the seeing of TMT sites

T. Travouillon, S. Els, R. Riddle, M. Schöck, A. Skidmore, E. Bustos, J. Seguel, D. Walker, J. Vasquez, R. Blum, P. Gillett, B. Gregory

Proceedings Volume 7012, 701220 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.787136

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Image quality, Telescopes, Scanning probe microscopy, Astronomy, Point spread functions, Lanthanum, Atmospheric turbulence, Clouds, Data integration

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2008 Paper

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The Multi Aperture Scintillation Sensor (MASS) used in the site selection of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)

S. Els, M. Schoeck, J. Seguel, W. Skidmore, D. Walker, A. Tokovinin, V. Kornilov, R. Riddle, T. Travouillon, E. Bustos, J. Vasquez, R. Blum, B. Gregory, P. Gillett

Proceedings Volume 7012, 701222 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788954

KEYWORDS: Clouds, Turbulence, Sensors, Telescopes, Heat flux, Cameras, Astronomy, Aerosols, Scintillation, Thirty Meter Telescope

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Proceedings Article | 23 June 2006 Paper

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Monitoring the night sky with the Cerro Tololo All-Sky camera for the TMT and LSST projects

David Walker, Hugo Schwarz, Edison Bustos

Proceedings Volume 6267, 62672O (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671567

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Optical filters, Observatories, Clouds, Sodium, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Pollution, Astronomy, CCD cameras, Image processing

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Proceedings Article | 28 September 2004 Paper

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The Thirty Meter Telescope site testing system

Warren Skidmore, Matthias Schock, Andrei Tokovinin, George Djorgovski, Alistair Walker, Robert Blum, Tony Travouillon, Juan Seguel, Edison Bustos, David Walker, Joselina Vasquez, Paul Gillett

Proceedings Volume 5489, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.549384

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Turbulence, Calibration, Atmospheric optics, Atmospheric turbulence, Motion measurement, Data modeling, Scintillation, Telecommunications, Thirty Meter Telescope

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