• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.93-102
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• 2011

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) launched the development project of two satellite laser ranging (SLR) systems in early 2008 after the government fund approval of the SLR systems in 2007. One mobile SLR system and one permanent SLR station will be developed with the completion of the project. The main objectives of these systems will be focused on the Space Geodetic researches. A system requirement review was held in the second half of the same year. Through the following system design review meeting and other design reviews, many unsolved technical and engineering issues would be discussed and resolved. However, the design of the mobile SLR system is a corner stone of whole project. The noticeable characteristics of Korea's first SLR system are 1) use of light weight main mirror, 2) design of compact optical assembly, 3) use of KHz laser pulse, 4) use of commercial laser generator, 5) remote operation capability, 6) automatic tracking, 7) state of art operation system, etc. In this paper, the major user requirement and pre-defined specification are presented and discussed.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.33-33
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• 2006

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2004.10b
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• pp.84-84
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• 2004

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.55.3-55.3
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• 2015

한국천문연구원에서 개발 중인 KMTNet 망원경은 2014년 칠레(5월), 남아공(8월), 호주(11월)에 설치가 완료되었다. 망원경 설치 이후, 연구관측용 광시야 18k CCD 카메라를 설치하기 전까지의 기간 동안 시험관측용 4k CCD 카메라(STX-16803)를 활용하여 관측을 수행하였다. 시험관측 대상으로는 KMTNet의 주 관측 영역인 우리은하 팽대부처럼 별이 밀집된 영역에서 영상차감법(Difference Image Analysis; DIA)을 활용해 변광하는 천체를 찾기 위해 $25^{\prime}{\times}25^{\prime}$의 CCD 관측 영역에 적당한 6개의 남반구 구상성단을 선정하였다. 본 발표에서는 관측된 성단의 측광 결과와 영상차감법을 이용해 찾은 변광성에 대해 논의할 예정이다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.61.1-61.1
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• 2009

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.57.2-57.2
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• 2019

BITSE is a balloon mission, which is a solar coronagraph to measure speed and temperature of the solar wind using 4 different wavelength filters and an pixelated polarization camera. KASI and NASA jointly designed, developed, and tested the solar coronagraph. Mainly KASI developed an imaging system and a control system, and NASA developed an optical system and mechanical structures. We mount the BITSE on Wallops Arc-Second Pointer (WASP) of Wallops Flight Facility, and launch it with a 39 mcf balloon of Columbia Scientific Ballon Facility. We will introduce the overall system of the BITSE.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.52.2-52.2
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• 2014

The Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) is an unprecedentedly minimized infrared cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph with a high-resolution and high-sensitivity optical performance. A silicon immersion grating features the instrument for the first time in this field. IGRINS will cover the entire portion of the wavelength range between 1.45 and $2.45{\mu}m$ accessible from the ground in a single exposure with spectral resolution of 40,000. Individual volume phase holographic (VPH) gratings serve as cross-dispersing elements for separate spectrograph arms covering the H and K bands. On the 2.7m Harlan J. Smith telescope at the McDonald Observatory, the slit size is $1^{\prime\prime}{\times}15^{\prime\prime}$. IGRINS has a $0.27^{\prime\prime}$ pixel-1 plate scale on a $2048{\times}2048$ pixel Teledyne Scientific & Imaging HAWAII-2RG detector with SIDECAR ASIC cryogenic controller. The instrument includes four subsystems; a calibration unit, an input relay optics module, a slit-viewing camera, and nearly identical H and K spectrograph modules. The use of a silicon immersion grating and a compact white pupil design allows the spectrograph collimated beam size to be 25mm, which permits the entire cryogenic system to be contained in a moderately sized rectangular vacuum chamber. The fabrication and assembly of the optical and mechanical hardware components were completed in 2013. In this presentation, we describe the major design characteristics of the instrument and the early performance estimated from the first light commissioning at the McDonald Observatory.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.55.1-55.1
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• 2006

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.55.2-55.2
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• 2015

한국천문연구원에서는 2도${\times}$2도 시야의 1.6m 광시야 망원경과 $18k{\times}18k$ 모자이크 CCD 카메라로 이루어진 관측시스템을 남반구천문대 3곳에 설치하여 24시간 모니터링 관측이 가능한 Korea Microlensing Telescope Network(KMTNet)을 구축하고 있다. 망원경 1,2,3호기는 각각 칠레 CTIO, 남아공 SAAO, 호주 SSO 관측소에 2014년말 까지 성공적으로 설치 완료하였으며, 2015년 2월 현재 칠레와 남아공에는 연구용 18k CCD 카메라, 호주에는 시험관측용 4k CCD 카메라를 부착하여 시험관측을 수행중이다. 시험관측을 통해 KMTNet 시스템에서 가장 중요한 부분인 광시야 광학계가 요구사양을 만족함을 확인하였고, 과학연구 수행에 어려움이 없을 것으로 예상한다. 우리는 시험관측을 통해 얻어진 각각의 시스템 성능을 검토하고, 관측 후 파일전송, 전처리 및 자료 배포와 더불어 안정적인 측광성능 유지를 위한 시스템 운영 및 향후 계획에 대하여 발표한다.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.108.1-108.1
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• 2014

Near-infrared Imaging Spectrometer for Star formation history (NISS), one of the main payloads of NEXTSat-1, is being developed by Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute (KASI). Since NISS adopts an infrared reflecting optical system, its performance is highly sensitive to changes in system temperature. Therefore, it is important to figure out the temperature through thermal analysis and cooling tests in order to optimize the optical system design. We conducted thermal analysis of NISS for the recently updated model, and obtained steady state temperature of the optical system for two cases of satellite attitude: about 190 K for the Normal case and about 210 K for the Hot case. In this paper, we present thermal design of NISS and the preliminary thermal analysis results.