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LEGACY OF THE SPICA CORONAGRAPH INSTRUMENT (SCI): TOWARD EXOPLANETARY SCIENCE WITH SPACE INFRARED TELESCOPES IN THE FUTURE

  • Enya, Keigo
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.347-349
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    • 2017
  • This paper reviews the legacy of the SPCIA Coronagraph Instrument (SCI) of which the primary scientific objective is the characterization of Jovian exoplanets by coronagraphic spectroscopy in the infrared. Studies on binary shaped pupil mask coronagraphs are described. Cryogenic active optics is discussed as another key technology. Then approaches to observing habitable zones in exoplanetary systems with a passively-cooled space infrared telescope are discussed. The SCI was dropped in a drastic change of the SPICA mission. However, its legacy is useful for space-borne infrared telescopes dedicated for use in exoplanetary science in the future, especially for studies of biomarkers.

Proposed Science Programs for SPICA Near-Infrared Instrument

  • Jeong, Woong-Seob;Matsumoto, Toshio;Lee, Hyung-Mok;Koo, Bon-Chul;Im, Myung-Shin;Lee, Dae-Hee;Ree, Chang-Hee;Park, Young-Sik;Moon, Bong-Kon;Park, Sung-Joon;Pyo, Jeong-Hyun;Cha, Sang-Mok;SPICA-FPCTeam, SPICA-FPCTeam
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.56.2-56.2
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    • 2010
  • The SPICA (SPace Infrared Telescope for Cosmology & Astrophysics) project is a next-generation astronomical mission optimized for mid- and far-infrared observation with a cryogenically cooled 3m-class telescope. Due to its high angular resolution and unprecedented sensitivity, SPICA will enable us to resolve many key issues in the present-day astronomy. As an international collaboration, KASI proposed the near-infrared instrument which is composed of two parts; (1) science observation with the capability of imaging and spectroscopy covering $0.7{\mu}m$ to $5{\mu}m$ (FPC-S) (2) fine guiding to stabilize and improve the attitude (FPC-G). Here, we introduce the science programs proposed for SPICA/FPC-S.

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SPACIAL POEM: A New Type of Experimental Visual Interaction in 3D Virtual Environment

  • Choi, Jin-Young
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02b
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    • pp.405-410
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    • 2008
  • There is always a rhythm in our language and speech. As soon as we speech out, even just simple words and voice we make are edited as various emotions and information. Through this process we succeed or fail in our communication, and it becomes a fun communication or a monotonous delivery. Even with the same music, impression of the play can be different according to each musician' s emotion and their understanding. We 'play' our language in the same way as that. However, I think, people are used to the variety, which is, in fact, the variation of a set format covered with hollow variety. People might have been living loosing or limiting their own creative way to express themselves by that hollow variety. SPACIAL POEM started from this point. This is a new type of 'real-time visual interaction' expressing our own creative narrative as real-time visual by playing a musical instrument which is an emotional human behavior. Producing many kinds of sound by playing musical instruments is the same behavior with which we express our emotions through. There are sensors on each hole on the surface of the musical instrument. When you play it, sensors recognize that you have covered the holes. All sensors are connected to a keyboard, which means your playing behavior becomes a typing action on the keyboard. And I programmed the visual of your words to spread out in a virtual 3D space when you play the musical instrument. The behavior when you blow the instrument, to make sounds, changes into the energy that makes you walk ahead continuously in a virtual space. I used a microphone sensor for this. After all by playing musical instrument, we get back the emotion we forgot so far, and my voice is expressed with my own visual language in virtual space.

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A Study on Interior Space in Rem Koolhaas' Architectures through Space Recognition of Deleuze's Painting Theory (들뢰즈 회화론의 공간인식에 의한 렘 쿨하스 건축의 실내공간에 관한연구)

  • Hong, Sun-Mi;Kim, Moon-Duck
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.115-120
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    • 2006
  • This study concentrates on a new idea that is formulated as a creative space recognition in contemporary architecture and painting. It is stimulated from Deleuze's philosophy, which is expressed with the philosophical instrument, "Non-Representation". After discussing the concept of non-representation used in Deleuze's philosophy, case example in contemporary architecture are analysed to comparatively Investigate the relationship between the architectures by Rem Koolhaas and painting by Francis Bacon. Therefore, he founds expressions of "diagram" and "movement" in painting of F. Bacon. Diagram meansit is a power that is comprised of various points of wiew with the kind experiences that one has in life. Movement that were extracted form the Instrument in space recognition of Deleuze's panting theory were of topology, insertion of geometry, reiteration of layers, transparency and translucency, reflection effect.

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Critical Design Status of the G-CLEF Flexure Control Camera

  • Oh, Jae Sok;Park, Chan;Kim, Kang-Min;Chun, Moo-Young;Yu, Young Sam;Lee, Sungho;Kim, Jihun;Szentgyorgyi, Andrew;Podgorski, William;Evans, Ian;Mueller, Mark;Uomoto, Alan;Crane, Jeffrey;Hare, Tyson
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.56.4-57
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    • 2017
  • The GMT-Consortium Large Earth Finder (G-CLEF) is the very first light instrument of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) to be commissioned in 2022. The instrument is a fiber feed, optical band echelle spectrograph that is capable of extremely precise radial velocity measurement. Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) has been involved in the development of the G-CLEF as one member of the international consortium consisted of five astronomical institutes including Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (OCIW). It is scheduled to have KASI side Critical Design Review in December 2017. In this presentation we will report the recent progress on the critical design activities for the G-CLEF Flexure Control Camera (FCC).

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Characteristics of Ocean Scanning Multi-spectral Imager(OSMI) (Ocean Scanning Multi-spectral Imager (OSMI) 특성)

  • Young Min Cho;Sang-Soon Yong;Sun Hee Woo;Sang-Gyu Lee;Kyoung-Hwan Oh;Hong-Yul Paik
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.223-231
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    • 1998
  • Ocean Scanning Multispectral Imager (OSMI) is a payload on the Korean Multi-Purpose SATellite (KOMPSAT) to perform worldwide ocean color monitoring for the study of biological oceanography. The instrument images the ocean surface using a whisk-broom motion with a swath width of 800 km and a ground sample distance (GSD) of less than 1 km over the entire field-of-view (FOV). The instrument is designed to have an on-orbit operation duty cycle of 20% over the mission lifetime of 3 years with the functions of programmable gain/offset and on-orbit image data storage. The instrument also performs sun calibration and dark calibration for on-orbit instalment calibration. The OSMI instrument is a multi-spectral imager covering the spectral range from 400 nm to 900 nm using a Charge Coupled Device (CCD) Focal Plane Array (FPA). The ocean colors are monitored using 6 spectral channels that can be selected via ground commands after launch. The instrument performances are fully measured for 8 basic spectral bands centered at 412, 443, 490, 510, 555, 670, 765 and 865 nm during ground characterization of instalment. In addition to the ground calibration, the on-orbit calibration will also be used for the on-orbit band selection. The on-orbit band selection capability can provide great flexibility in ocean color monitoring.

AN X-RAY EXPERIMENT WITH TWO-STAGE KOREAN SOUNDING ROCKET (중형 과학로켓을 활용한 천체 X-선 관측실험 결과 분석)

  • 남욱원;최철성
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.373-389
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    • 1998
  • The test result of the X-ray observation system is presented which have been developed at Korea Astronomy Observatory for 3 years(1995 -1997). The instrument, which is composed of detector and signal processing parts, is designed for the future observations of compact X-ray sources. The performance of the instrument was tested by mounting on the two-stage Korean Sounding Rocket, which was launched from Taean rocket flight center on June 11 at 10:00 KST 1998. Telemetry data was received from individual parts of the instrument for 32 and 55.7 sec, respectively, since the launch of the rocket. In this paper, the result of the data analysis based on the received telemetry data and discussion about the performance of the instrument is reported.

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THE ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENT, SO-GANUI INVENTED DURING KING SEJONG PERIOD (세종시대 창제된 천문관측의기 소간의(小簡儀))

  • 이용삼;김상혁
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.231-242
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    • 2002
  • So-ganui, namely small simplified armillary sphere, was invented as an astronomical instrument by Lee Cheon, Jeong Cho, Jung In-Ji under 16 years’ rule of King Sejong. We collect records and observed data on So-ganui. It is designed to measure position of celestial sphere and to determine time. It also can be transformed equatorial to horizontal, and horizontal to equatorial coordinate. It can measure the right ascension, declination, altitude and azimuth. It is composed of Sayu-hwan (Four displacements), Jeokdo-hwan (Equato.ial dial), Baekgak-hwan (Ring with one hundred-interval quarters), Gyuhyeong (Sighting aliadade), Yongju (Dragon-pillar) and Bu (Stand). So-ganui was used conveniently portable surveying as well as astronomical instrument and possible to determine time during day and night.

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF THE COSMIC INFRARED BACKGROUND EXPERIMENT (적외선 우주배경복사 관측 실험 국제 공동 연구)

  • Lee, D.H.;Nam, U.W.;Lee, S.;Jin, H.;Yuk, I.S.;Kim, K.H.;Pak, S.
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.21-26
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    • 2006
  • A Korean team (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Korea Basic Science Institute, and Kyung Hee University) takes part in an international cooperation project called CIBER (Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment), which has begun with Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in USA and Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) in Japan. CIBER is a rocket-borne instrument, of which the scientific goal is to measure the cosmic near-infrared extra-galactic background to search for signatures of primordial galaxy formation. CIBER consists of a wide-field two-color camera, a low-resolution absolute spectrometer, and a high-resolution narrow-band imaging spectrometer. The Korean team is in charge of the ground support electronics and manufacturing of optical parts of the narrow-band spectrometer, which will provide excellent opportunities for science and technology to Korean infrared groups.