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Shu-i Wang's HAWC Page

The High-resolution Airborne Wide-bandwidth Camera, HAWC, is a far-infrared facility camera being built at the University of Chicago for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).

List of HAWC Documents

• Download MS Word file on Draft Alignment Document (12/8/00)
• View HAWC Foreoptics/Calibration/Guider Mirror Specs (1/19/01) or download Excel spreadsheet
• Download MS Word file on Optics Document (6/13/01)
• Download Excel Spreadsheet on HAWC Glass Models in Zemax 10 (post 2/14/02)
• View Measured Lens Specs or download Excel spreadsheet
• View Optics Warm & Cold Positions (Zemax all-aluminum mounts model, 2/19/02) or download Excel spreadsheet
• HAWC Lenses Anti-reflection Coating Transmission Calculations (reflective losses only).
• HAWC Cryostat Optics Layout: Band 1, Band 2, Band 3, Band 4 , Pupil Reimaging Mode for Band 3
• View Final HAWC Optics Specs & Tolerances (7/27/01) or download Excel spreadsheet
• View Optics Warm & Cold Positions (3/30/01) or download Excel spreadsheet
• View Optics Warm & Cold Specs (warm specs as quoted) or download Excel spreadsheet
• Telescope Specs used in Optics FOV Calculations
• OLD HAWC Optics Specs & Tolerances (9/22/00)
• HAWC Coordinate Systems
• Transmission of Bare Quartz: QMC Measurement At Room Temp., Loewenstein (1973) T=1.5K, & Brehat & Wyncke (1997) T=10K
• Download MS Word file on HAWC Window Document (4/13/01)
• Change in Window Curvature with Time (0.02" copolymer PP): Plot, Data, & Best Fit Sphere
• Change in Window Curvature with Time (0.033" HDPE): Plot, Data, & Best Fit Sphere
• Change in Window Curvature with Time (0.02" UHMWPE): Tim's Plot
• Tim's Model of a 3" Diamond Window Sag Under Vacuum
• A HAWC Drawing (5/18/00)
• Tolerance Analysis Notes (3/3/00)
• Lens and Filter Specs, 5/5/00 (new magnifications & passbands, without final window specs)
• Old (PDR) Lens and Filter Specs (hawc123a)
• Boresight Camera Candidate
• HAWC Optics Maximum Beam Footprint 3" Before Detector

Locations of Other HAWC Documents

• University of Chicago Publ ic HAWC Site
• SOFIA Internal Reference Site
• FORCAST CDR Material
• SOFIA ftp Server in Waco
• Public Homepage of SOFIA
• UC/Yerkes ftp Site
• Ames Postdoc Site: Sofia Science Support
• GSFC HAWC Site
• United Airlines' SOFIA video for the United Entertainment Network
• QMC Instruments Ltd & Thomas Keating Ltd (filters & grids)

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