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IGRINS First Light Instrumental Performance

  • Park, Chan;Yuk, In-Soo;Chun, Moo-Young;Pak, Soojong;Kim, Kang-Min;Pavel, Michael;Lee, Hanshin;Oh, Heeyoung;Jeong, Ueejeong;Sim, Chae Kyung;Lee, Hye-In;Le, Huynh Anh Nguyen;Strubhar, Joseph;Gully-Santiago, Michael;Oh, Jae Sok;Cha, Sang-Mok;Moon, Bongkon;Park, Kwijong;Brooks, Cynthia;Ko, Kyeongyeon;Han, Jeong-Yeol;Nah, Jakyuong;Hill, Peter C.;Lee, Sungho;Barnes, Stuart;Park, Byeong-Gon;T., Daniel
    • 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.

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IGRINS Design and Performance Report

  • Park, Chan;Jaffe, Daniel T.;Yuk, In-Soo;Chun, Moo-Young;Pak, Soojong;Kim, Kang-Min;Pavel, Michael;Lee, Hanshin;Oh, Heeyoung;Jeong, Ueejeong;Sim, Chae Kyung;Lee, Hye-In;Le, Huynh Anh Nguyen;Strubhar, Joseph;Gully-Santiago, Michael;Oh, Jae Sok;Cha, Sang-Mok;Moon, Bongkon;Park, Kwijong;Brooks, Cynthia;Ko, Kyeongyeon;Han, Jeong-Yeol;Nah, Jakyuong;Hill, Peter C.;Lee, Sungho;Barnes, Stuart;Yu, Young Sam;Kaplan, Kyle;Mace, Gregory;Kim, Hwihyun;Lee, Jae-Joon;Hwang, Narae;Kang, Wonseok;Park, Byeong-Gon
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.90-90
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    • 2014
  • The Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) is the first astronomical spectrograph that uses a silicon immersion grating as its dispersive element. IGRINS fully covers the H and K band atmospheric transmission windows in a single exposure. It is a compact high-resolution cross-dispersion spectrometer whose resolving power R is 40,000. An individual volume phase holographic grating serves as a secondary dispersing element for each of the H and K spectrograph arms. 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 plate scale of 0.27" pixel-1 on a $2048{\times}2048$ pixel Teledyne Scientific & Imaging HAWAII-2RG detector with a 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 ($0.96m{\times}0.6m{\times}0.38m$) rectangular Dewar. The fabrication and assembly of the optical and mechanical components were completed in 2013. From January to July of this year, we completed the system optical alignment and carried out commissioning observations on three runs to improve the efficiency of the instrument software and hardware. We describe the major design characteristics of the instrument including the system requirements and the technical strategy to meet them. We also present the instrumental performance test results derived from the commissioning runs at the McDonald Observatory.

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Pilot Plant Study on Biological Nutrient Removal of Wastewater

  • Ahn, Sang-Jin;Kim, Geon-Heung;Ahn, Bok-Kyoun
    • Korean Journal of Hydrosciences
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    • v.1
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    • pp.99-106
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    • 1990
  • An extensive biological nutrient removal pilot plant study of anoxic/anaerobic/ aerobic treatment process was conducted to eastblish an optimum operational mode using primary dffluent. Two operational modes, (1) Qr/Q was 3.0 and maintaining EMLSS of 3100 mg/L in which the best operational results were obtained from previous bench scale study using synthetic wastewater (2) Qr/Q was 0.5 and EMLSS of 2200 mg/L which was compatible with the main plant, were Compared and evaluated for removal of nitrogen and/or phosphorous under field conditions. The nitrogen removal increased with increasing recycle ratios, but the phosphorous removal revealed more consistent results with 83percent removal efficiency in the second mode compared with 80 percent in the first mode. Above all, the two modes equally showed good BOD and nitrogen removals by nitrification-denitrification processes. It was also observed that no scum formed in the pilot plant and the sludge exhibited excellent settling characteristic all the time. The modified biological nutrient removal train can be adopted to the main plant without any major changes of their operational modes.

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Effects of Additional Annealings via Josephson Weak-links on the Electrical Properties of Ceramic $YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-g}$ (부가적인 Annealing이 Josephson weak-links를 통하여 Ceramic 고온초전도체 $YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-g}$ 에 미치는 영향)

  • Jeong, D.Y.;Black, T.D.;Krichene, S.;Reynolds, J.R.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1989.07a
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    • pp.287-290
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    • 1989
  • Single-phase $YBa_2Cu_3O_{j-g}$ (YBC) ceramic samples were annealed at $700^{\circ}C$ under a flowing $O_2$ atmosphere for 0, 18, 36, 54 and 72. hours after sintering. The resistivities(p) and the critical current densities($J_c$) of the samples were measured in a temperature range 77 to 300 K by a four probe method, using silver paint contacts. The variations of the electrical properties with annealing time are explained in terms of flux pinning, percolation probability and randomness, and alignment of grains and twins.The anomalous increases in $J_c$ and $T_c$ observed in sample annealed for a relatively long time possibly due to alignment of grains and twins, may imply the occurrence of superconducting glass state in high-$T_c$ superconducting ceramic.

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Alternation of Adhesion Molecules during Aging and Modulation by Calorie Restriction

  • Zou , Yani;Yu, Byung-Pal;Yoon , Sick;Jung, Kyung-Jin;Chung, Hae-Young
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.329.1-329.1
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    • 2002
  • Expressions of adhesion molecules (AMs) are closely related to the formation of early atherosclerosis. an age-dependent process. However. previous research only provided limited and conflicted reports about alternated AMs expressions during aging and even much less is known about modulation of AMs by calorie restriction (CR), the only established anti-aging experimental paradigm. (omitted)

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