Title: Pioneering Optical Coating Technology for Space Exploration with Gravitational Waves - Precision Metrology at the Thermodynamic Limit Abstract: The world-wide effort to detect gravitational waves has lifted the veil on a gravitational sky full of violent cosmic events with rich stories to tell. The sensitivities of the current observatories - marvels of precision engineering and optical metrology - have evolved to …
Events at UCFTitle: Eyes on the Sky, Nowhere to Hide: Challenges in Full Sky Space Domain Awareness and Communications Abstract: When satellites are lower than thirty degrees above the horizon, the non-negligible path length through the atmosphere exceeds 100 km. Operations in this regime are sometimes referred to as being "in the soup" because turbulence effects dominate both seeing and optical communications. …
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