Dr. Robert M. Barnsley Profile

Dr. Robert M. Barnsley

Operations Scientist at SKAO

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Publications (11)

Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

Design and proto-typing of integral field units for the ELT-PCS test bench spectrograph

Matthias Tecza, Robert Barnsley, Álvaro Menduiña-Fernández, Takashi Sukegawa

Proceedings Volume 10706, 107062I (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313286

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Spectrographs, Wavefronts, Diffraction, Point spread functions, Adaptive optics, Stars, Planets, Polishing

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Paper

Can the European ELT detect super-Earths? Measuring the contrast limit of an image-slicer spectrograph in a laboratory experiment: an update on progress

Robert Barnsley, Matthias Tecza

Proceedings Volume 10706, 107061N (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312488

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Wavefronts, Collimators, Cameras, Mirrors, Astrophysics, Lenses, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Paper

Thermal and mechanical design and test of the CCD mount for the WEAVE spectrograph cryostats

Stuart Bates, Iain Steele, Chris Mottram, Helen Jermak, Niels Tromp, Jan Kragt, Eddy Elswijk, Johan Pragt, Remko Stuik, Robert Barnsley, Charles Monroe, Gavin Dalton, Scott Trager, Jose Alfonso Lopez Aguerri, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Antonella Vallenari, Esperanza Carrasco, Don Carlos Abrams, Kevin Middleton

Proceedings Volume 10709, 107091Z (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312496

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, CCD image sensors, Nitrogen, Spectrographs, Confocal microscopy, Temperature metrology

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

Can the European ELT detect super-Earths? Measuring the contrast limit of an image slicer spectrograph in a laboratory experiment

Robert Barnsley, Matthias Tecza, Niranjan Thatte

Proceedings Volume 9908, 99089R (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232552

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Iterated function systems, Telescopes, Cameras, Sensors, Electroluminescent displays, Planets, Mirrors, Imaging arrays, Collimators

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Proceedings Article | 27 July 2016 Paper

Liverpool Telescope 2: beginning the design phase

Christopher Copperwheat, Iain Steele, Robert Barnsley, Stuart Bates, Mike Bode, Neil Clay, Chris Collins, Helen Jermak, Johan Knapen, Jon Marchant, Chris Mottram, Andrzej Piascik, Robert Smith

Proceedings Volume 9906, 99063A (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231755

KEYWORDS: Space telescopes, Telescopes, Robotics, Gamma radiation, Lanthanum, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Space telescopes, Optical instrument design, Sensors, Mirrors, Spectrographs

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Proceedings Article | 26 July 2016 Paper

Automated spectral reduction pipelines

Robert Smith, Andrzej Piascik, Iain Steele, Robert Barnsley

Proceedings Volume 9913, 991317 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232771

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Charge-coupled devices, Telescopes, Observatories, Sensors, Charge-coupled devices, Electroluminescent displays, Lamps, Vignetting, Cameras, Image processing

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SPIE Journal Paper | 4 March 2016

IO:I, a near-infrared camera for the Liverpool Telescope

Robert Barnsley, Helen Jermak, Iain Steele, Robert Smith, Stuart Bates, Christopher Mottram

JATIS, Vol. 2, Issue 01, 015002, (March 2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.2.1.015002

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Sensors, Cameras, Astronomical telescopes, Imaging systems, Cadmium sulfide, Stars, Space telescopes, Data processing, Radon

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Proceedings Article | 28 July 2014 Paper

SPRAT: Spectrograph for the Rapid Acquisition of Transients

A. Piascik, Iain Steele, Stuart Bates, Christopher Mottram, R. Smith, R. Barnsley, B. Bolton

Proceedings Volume 9147, 91478H (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055117

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectrographs, Cameras, Space telescopes, Lamps, Optical components, Prisms, Sensors, Calibration, Krypton

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Proceedings Article | 23 July 2014 Paper

Using dummy and pseudo-dummy amplifiers to correct for common mode CCD noise

I. Steele, C. Mottram, R. Smith, R. Barnsley

Proceedings Volume 9154, 915428 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056602

KEYWORDS: Electrons, Charge-coupled devices, Sensors, Optical amplifiers, Clocks, Telescopes, Digital signal processing, Electronics, Interference (communication), Denoising

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