scholarly journals The University of Texas 7.6-m Telescope

1984 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 789-816
Author(s):  
Robert G. Tull
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Adaptive Optics ◽  
Significant Advance ◽  
Large Telescope ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Very Large Telescope ◽  
Western Development ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University

In late 1979 a plan to build a very large telescope was presented to University of Texas President Peter Flawn. A small startup budget was subsequently granted by the University administration, and we asked Aden and Marjorie Meinel to carry out a design concept study, which they completed in early 1980. Following their report, a study contract was awarded to the Western Development Laboratories Division of Ford Aerospace & Communications Corp., for a preliminary design and cost estimate.It is generally agreed that construction of monolithic mirrors up to 8-10 meters aperture is within current technology. The major concern that has prevented construction of telescopes larger than the Palomar 5-m telescope outside the Soviet Union has been cost; it has been shown (Meinel and Meinel, 1980a) that the single most important item in determining the cost of a large telescope is the weight of its primary mirror. We chose a monolithic, lightweight 7.6-m (300-inch) mirror as representing a significant advance from presently existing telescope apertures while also being well within the current state-of-the-art. Because a lightweight mirror cannot support its figure against gravity and other disturbances as well as can a conventional thick mirror, we have investigated methods of active control of the mirror's figure. The now maturing technology of adaptive optics (Hardy 1980, 1981, 1982) has been drawn upon extensively in planning this telescope. Results of finite element analyses of an ultra-lightweight monolithic 7.6-m mirror blank have been published (Ray et.al., 1982, 1983). A description of the proposed mirror figure monitoring system has been given (Tull and Young, 1983).

scholarly journals Erratum

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-143
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
French Translation ◽  
Complete Collection ◽  
Fresh Matter ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

In his review of Meyerhold at Work, edited by Paul Schmidt (Applause, 1996), in the November 1998 issue, Dave Williams commented that Meyerhold “wrote little.” Laurence Senelick has responded, pointing out that Meyerhold's writings are, in fact, voluminous. Senelick writes: “When his memory was rehabilitated in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin, a selection of his writings was finally issued in 1968 as Stat'i, pis'ma, rechi, besedy (Articles, letters, speeches, discourses,) in two fat volumes edited by A. V. Fevralskij and B. I. Rostotskij. The two tomes together came to over 1000 tightly printed pages. To serve the continuing interest in Meyerhold, a far from complete collection of his letters appeared in 1976 (463 pp.), followed two years later by a nearly 500-page compendium of fresh matter, Tvorcheskoe nasledie Mejerkhol'da (Meyerhold's Creative Legacy). Thereafter, fugitive pieces came out on a regular basis in Russian periodicals and anthologies, and in 1993 another two-volume collection, this time of the stenographic records of his rehearsals, was pubhshed. The fullest collection of Meyerhold's writing outside of Russia is the French translation published in Lausanne, and it is in four volumes… When Paul Schmidt put together Meyerhold at Work, which was first published by the University of Texas Press in 1980, he was deliberately seeking to include material which had not appeared in Edward Braun's 1969 collection Meyerhold on Theatre. Hence his emphasis on the testimony of collaborators and contemporaries, rather than the master's words themselves… If there is a lesson in this, it is that English-speakers have been poorly served by publishers if the paucity of Meyerhold's utterances in translation can lead to the fallacy that he rarely set pen to paper.”

Emancipation and Domesticity: Decoding Personal Manuscript Cookbooks from the Soviet Union

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 111-126
Author(s):  
Anastasia Lakhtikova
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Soviet Ideology ◽  
The Cost

A product of their time and of the internalized Soviet ideology that to a great extent shaped women's gendered self-fashioning as women and mothers, Soviet manuscript cookbooks became popular among Soviet women in the late 1960s. Based on the semiotic reading of two personal manuscript cookbooks in the author's family, this article explores what these cookbooks, in combination with the author's family history, tell about how Soviet women used and reshaped the gender roles available to them in late Soviet everyday life. The author also asks questions about the cost of emancipation in a society that could not truly support such progress socially or economically.

Power and Military Impotence

Worldview ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Seymour Melman
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Economic Cost ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
Military Power ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Military Security ◽  
Special Force ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Military

After twenty-five years of a nuclear-military arms race, it is possible to define significant limits of military power for national security. These limits apply with special force to the nuclear superpowers. These same limits of military power also define new requirements for a disarmament process.Underlying the long discussion of disarmament among nations has been the understanding that lowered levels of armaments produce mutual advantage: the prospect of physical destruction is reduced; and the cost of armaments can be applied to constructive uses. The arms race from 1946 to 1971 between the United States and the Soviet Union has not improved the military security of either nation, and the economic cost to these two countries has exceeded $1,500 billion.

scholarly journals NAOMI: the adaptive optics system of the Auxiliary Telescopes of the VLTI

2019 ◽  
Vol 629 ◽  
pp. A41 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Woillez ◽  
J. A. Abad ◽  
R. Abuter ◽  
E. Aller Carpentier ◽  
J. Alonso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Optics ◽  
Single Mode ◽  
Large Telescope ◽  
Wavefront Correction ◽  
Design Performance ◽  
Very Large Telescope ◽  
Fringe Tracking ◽  
Adaptive Optics System ◽  
Atmospheric Seeing

Context. The tip-tilt stabilisation system of the 1.8 m Auxiliary Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer was never dimensioned for robust fringe tracking, except when atmospheric seeing conditions are excellent. Aims. Increasing the level of wavefront correction at the telescopes is expected to improve the coupling into the single-mode fibres of the instruments, and enable robust fringe tracking even in degraded conditions. Methods. We deployed a new adaptive optics module for interferometry (NAOMI) on the Auxiliary Telescopes. Results. We present its design, performance, and effect on the observations that are carried out with the interferometric instruments.

Anna Louise Strong: Three Interviews with Chairman Mao Zedong

1985 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 489-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy B. Strong ◽  
Helene Keyssar
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Domestic Policies ◽  
The University ◽  
General Strike

Anna Louise Strong was part of the first generation of those westerners who reported extensively and sympathetically on socialist revolutions. Born in Nebraska in 1885, she obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1908, became involved in the labour movement in Seattle where she helped organize the general strike in 1919 and went first to the Soviet Union in 1921 on the advice of Lincoln Steffens. She became during the 1920s and 1930s probably the best-known American journalist reporting on the domestic policies of the Soviet Union. Her reportage was unswervingly sympathetic – what doubts she had were hidden in letters to friends, in strained disavowals, in odd turns of phrase in her many articles and books.

International Whaling Commission

1957 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-702 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
International Association ◽  
Substantial Reduction ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Whaling Commission ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
The Cost

The eighth annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission took place in London July 16–20, 1956, under the chairmanship of Dr. G. J. Lienesch (Netherlands). All seventeen contracting governments, with the exception of Brazil, were represented, with observers from Italy, Portugal, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, and the International Association of Whaling Companies. During the deliberations the Commission 1) received from the Bureau of International Whaling Statistics data on the operations and the catch for the past season; 2) received various scientific papers concerning the stocks of whales, and almost unanimously favoring a substantial reduction in the catch in view of evidence that the stock was declining, recommended that the catch for future seasons should not exceed 15,000 blue whale units, and, with one dissentient, recommended that the limit should be reduced in the 1956–1957 season to 14,500 blue whales; 3) after examining the returns rendered in respect of infractions of the whaling regulations, noted that, in general, there had been a decrease over the previous year; 4) received further confirmation from the Commissioner of the Soviet Union of the use of fenders of porous rubber to replace the present use of whale carcases for this purpose; 5) allocated an equivalent of $1400 towards the cost of whale marking; and 6) requested the United States to prepare a protocol for the amendment of the convention requiring every factory ship to have on board two inspectors who were generally of the same nationality as the flag of the ship, to permit consideration of a scheme to appoint independent observers in addition to the national inspectors.

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