Mark R. Chun Assistant Specialist Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1997 Adaptive optics Atmospheric characterization Go to the IfA home page

Selected Publications

Cats: Optical to Near-Infrared Colors of the Bulge and Disk of Two z = 0.7 Galaxies Using Hubble Space Telescope and Keck Laser Adaptive Optics Imaging
E. Steinbring, J. Melbourne, A. J. Metevier, D. C. Koo, M. R. Chun, L. Simard, J. E. Larkin, and C. E. Max
Astronomical Journal, 136, 1523-1532 (2008)

Performance of the Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imager on Gemini-South
M. Chun, D. Toomey, Z. Wahhaj, B. Biller, E. Artigau, T. Hayward, M. Liu, L. Close, M. Hartung, F. Rigaut, and C. Ftaclas
Proceedings of the SPIE, 7015, 70151V-70151V-9 (2008)

LOLAS: An Optical Turbulence Profiler in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer with Extreme Altitude Resolution
R. Avila, J. L. Avilés, R. W. Wilson, M. Chun, T. Butterley, and E. Carrasco
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 387, 1511-1516 (2008)

Emission-Line Spectroscopy of a Damped Lyα-absorbing Galaxy at z = 0.437
S. Gharanfoli, V. P. Kulkarni, M. R. Chun, and M. Takamiya
Astronomical Journal, 133, 130-138 (2007)

MIRAO: A Mid-IR Adaptive Optics System Design for TMT
M. R. Chun, J. Elias, B. Ellerbroek, T. Bond, M. Liang, R. Clare, A. Tokunaga, M. Richter,
and L. Daggert
Proceedings of the SPIE, 6272, 62720S (2006)

Preliminary Optical Design for the TMT Mid-Infrared Adaptive Optics System and Echelle Spectrograph
M. Liang, J. H. Elias, A. T. Tokunaga, M. R. Chun, M. J. Richter, L. Daggert, and T. Bond
Proceedings of the SPIE, 6269, 626943 (2006)

Adaptive Optics Imaging of Low-Redshift Damped Lyα Quasar Absorbers
M. R. Chun, S. Gharanfoli, V. P. Kulkarni, and M. Takamiya
Astronomical Journal, 131, 686-700 (2006)

Optical Turbulence Profiles at Mauna Kea Measured by MASS and SCIDAR
A. Tokovinin, J. Vernin, A. Ziad, and M. Chun
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 117, 395-400 (2005)

A Method for High-Resolution C²_N Profiling in the First Few Hundred Meters
R. Avila and M. R. Chun
Proceedings of the SPIE, 5490, 742-748 (2004)

Gains from a Ground-only Adaptive Optics System
M. R. Chun
Proceedings of the SPIE, 4839, 94-98 (2003)

Pan-STARRS: A Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Array
N. Kaiser et al.
Proceedings of the SPIE, 4836, 154-164 (2002)

First light for Hokupa'a 36 on Gemini North
J. E. Graves, M. J. Northcott, F. J. Roddier, C. A. Roddier, D. Potter, D. J. O'Connor, F. J. Rigaut, and M. R. Chun
Proceedings of the SPIE, 4007, 26-30 (2000)

Curvature-based laser guide star adaptive optics system for Gemini South
M. R. Chun, C. D'Orgeville, B. L. Ellerbroek, J. E. Graves, M. J. Northcott, and F. J. Rigaut
Proceedings of the SPIE, 4007, 142-148 (2000)

Turbulence and wind profiling with generalized scidar at Cerro Pachon
R. Avila, J. Vernin, M. R. Chun, and L. J. Sanchez
Proceedings of the SPIE, 4007, 721-732 (2000)

Gemini Mauna Kea laser guide star system
C. D'Orgeville, M. R. Chun, J. Sebag, C. Boyer, D. Montgomery, J. M. Oschmann, F. J. Rigaut, and D. A. Simons
Proceedings of the SPIE, 3762, 150-160 (1999)

The Useful Field of View of an Adaptive Optics System
M. Chun
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 110, 317-329 (1998)

Design of tip-tilt and adaptive optics servos using measured angle-of-arrival and phase power spectra
E. J. Kibblewhite and M. R. Chun
Proceedings of the SPIE, 3353, 522-530 (1998)

Increasing the useful field of view of an adaptive optics system
M. R. Chun, W. J. Wild, F. Shi, M. F. Smutko, E. J. Kibblewhite, R. Q. Fugate, and J. C. Christou
Proceedings of the SPIE, 3353, 384-390 (1998)

Performance of ChAOS on the Apache Point Observatory's 3.5-m telescope
E. J. Kibblewhite, M. R. Chun, J. E. Larkin, V. Scor, F. Shi, M. F. Smutko, and W. J. Wild
Proceedings of the SPIE, 3353, 60-71 (1998)