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Presentations and Proceedings

This page contains links to Presentations, Proceedings and other articles which describe aspects of the PTCS. They are simply filed in rough chronological order of appearance.

2008

• Pushing the GBT to 3 Millimeter Observations
  Todd Hunter's talk to the GB Summer Students, July 29, 2008.
  powerpoint PDF

• Characterization of the New GBT Azimuth Track and Pointing Model
  T.R. Hunter, K.T. Constantikes, F. Ghigo, J. Brandt, and R. Grider, in NRAO Newsletter #114 (January 2008)

2007

• The GBT Pointing Model, Constantikes, K.T.
  Invited paper at the July 2007 URSI Ottawa, Canada meeting.
  Presentation Only: powerpoint version pdf version

2006

• The Green Bank Telescope, Prestage, R.M.
  SPIE Proceedings on Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes, Volume 6267, ADS link

• The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, Ford, J.M.
  Keynote Address, IEEE SEM Section Fall Conference, 2 November 2006.
  Presentation only: powerpoint version pdf version

• Adjusting the GBT Surface: Towards 100 GHz operation, Prestage, R.M.
  CDL Engineering Lunch Talk, 18 August 2006.
  Presentation only: powerpoint version   pdf version   Aug2007 email discussion on Slide 52

• GBT Performance. Balser, D. S.
  Summer Student Lecture at Green Bank, WV on 20 June 2006.
  Presentation Only: powerpoint version pdf version

2005

• Pointing and Focussing the GBT. Constantikes, K.T.
  Invited paper at the January 2005 URSI Boulder Colorado meeting.
  Presentation Only: powerpoint version pdf version

• An Update on the GBT Metrology System. Constantikes, K.T.
  Invited paper at the January 2005 URSI Boulder Colorado meeting.
  Presentation Only: powerpoint version pdf version

2004

• The GBT Precision Telescope Control System. Constantikes, K.T.
  Slides of a seminar given at Ohio University, 24th May 2004.
  powerpoint version pdf version

• The GBT Precision Telescope Control System. Prestage, R.M., Constantikes, K.T., Balser, D.S., Condon, J.J.
  Submitted to SPIE Conference "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation", 2004.
  Paper Only: pdf version, ADS link

• The GBT Precision Telescope Control System. Prestage, R.M., Constantikes, K.T., Balser, D.S., Condon, J.J.
  Presentation Only: powerpoint version pdf version

2003

• The GBT Precision Telescope Control System (PDF format). Kim Constantikes. Invited Paper presented at the 2003 ADASS. To appear in ASP Conference Series, Vol. XXX, 2004, F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen and D. Egret eds. ADS link
  Here is Kim's Presentation Material (pdf version), also available as a Powerpoint Version with linked AVI file of structural temperature variations.

• *The Engineering Measurement System (EMS): A Crucial Component of the Precision Telescope Control System at the Green Bank Telescope (PDF Format, note: figure takes a while to print!). Kim Constantikes, Paul Marganian, Ray Creager. Poster Paper presentend at the 2003 ADASS. To appear in ASP Conference Series, Vol. XXX, 2004, F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen and D. Egret eds. ADS link
  Here is the Poster Paper Paul presented.

1998

• GBT telescope and instrumentation control system hardware architecture: computers, networks, interfaces, and timing
  J. Ford, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3351, p. 387-395, Telescope Control Systems III, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998SPIE.3351..387F

Kim's Temperature Movie

We use this movie in many of the presentations. You need to save it to an appropriate place in your local directory, then make sure the powerpoint presentation knows where to find it.

• tempsMovie4.avi: Kim's temperature movie

Attachment:	Action:	Size:	Date:	Who:	Comment:
PTCS29July2008.pdf	action	5936518	29 Jul 2008 - 16:15	ToddHunter	July 2008 Summer student lecture
PTCS29July2008.ppt	action	25903616	29 Jul 2008 - 16:16	ToddHunter	July 2008 Summer student lecture