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The relative complexity in real FLOPs among 2D ...

The relative complexity in real FLOPs among 2D Fourier-transform computations described ...

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Illustration of the starshade and pupil plane s...

Illustration of the starshade and pupil plane sampling (not to scale). The pupil radius ...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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The optical model of a starshade is illustrated...

The optical model of a starshade is illustrated. The input function fλ(x, y) describes t...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Suppression in logarithmic units (diffraction i...

Suppression in logarithmic units (diffraction intensity at the telescope aperture ...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Suppression (diffraction intensity at the teles...

Suppression (diffraction intensity at the telescope aperture) of a point source is shown...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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The suppression profile at the telescope apertu...

The suppression profile at the telescope aperture ﹩{f}_{P}^{\parallel }﹩ is shown simula...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Solar system at 10 pc magnitude with HWO, face-...

Solar system at 10 pc magnitude with HWO, face-on in columns 1 and 2, and at an inclinat...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Baseline HWO segmented and obscured telescope a...

Baseline HWO segmented and obscured telescope apertures: “off-axis” (left), “on-axis” (r...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Example PSFs at 500 nm for the off-axis apertur...

Example PSFs at 500 nm for the off-axis aperture (left panels) and on-axis aperture (rig...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Core throughput within a photometric aperture o...

Core throughput within a photometric aperture of radius 0.7λ/D at 500 nm (left panel) an...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Core throughput within a photometric aperture o...

Core throughput within a photometric aperture of radius 0.7λ/D for wavelengths ranging f...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Core throughput in the focal plane over a grid ...

Core throughput in the focal plane over a grid of source positions covering 2 · IWA at 5...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Schematic of the innermost regions around a qua...

Schematic of the innermost regions around a quasar’s central SMBH: the X-ray corona, acc...

Juna A. Kollmeier et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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A schematic representation of SDSS-V: an all-sk...

A schematic representation of SDSS-V: an all-sky, multiepoch spectroscopic facility and ...

Juna A. Kollmeier et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Target density of SDSS-V’s two MOS mappers. The...

Target density of SDSS-V’s two MOS mappers. The MOS target densities (MWM and BHM) acros...

Juna A. Kollmeier et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Ratio of MWM to BHM targets across the sky in G...

Ratio of MWM to BHM targets across the sky in Galactic coordinates. This ratio highlight...

Juna A. Kollmeier et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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The LVM footprint. Overlaid on a low-resolution...

The LVM footprint. Overlaid on a low-resolution all-sky Hα map (D. P. Finkbeiner 2003), ...

Juna A. Kollmeier et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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The LVM Fiber System. The four fiber bundles co...

The LVM Fiber System. The four fiber bundles coming from the IFUs (right) enter the “Sor...

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FPS focal plane configuration. Left: Sloan FPS ...

FPS focal plane configuration. Left: Sloan FPS unit, with yellow dust caps installed on ...

Juna A. Kollmeier et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Overview of the LVM-I. Each of the four telesco...

Overview of the LVM-I. Each of the four telescopes uses a siderostat in alt–alt configur...

Juna A. Kollmeier et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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SDSS-V Wide-Field Corrector for the 2.5 m at AP...

SDSS-V Wide-Field Corrector for the 2.5 m at APO. A new corrector was required for the S...

Juna A. Kollmeier et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Architecture of the LVM telescopes. Note that t...

Architecture of the LVM telescopes. Note that the Science and two Sky telescopes contain...

Juna A. Kollmeier et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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IFU layout showing the allocation to each of th...

IFU layout showing the allocation to each of the three spectrographs. The larger Science...

Juna A. Kollmeier et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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3D rendering of the optomechanics of one spectr...

3D rendering of the optomechanics of one spectrograph (left) and schematic optical path ...

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LVM-I software subsystem architecture. See Sect...

LVM-I software subsystem architecture. See Section 6.3 for details.

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