Mr. Kan Yang Profile

Kan Yang

Aerospace Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr

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Proceedings Article | 9 September 2019 Presentation + Paper

Optical instrument thermal control on the Large Ultraviolet/Optical/Infrared Surveyor

Kan Yang, Matthew Bolcar, Julie Crooke, Jason Hylan, Sang Park, Regis Venti, Bryan Matonak, Michael Choi

Proceedings Volume 11115, 111150Y (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2528862

KEYWORDS: Optical components, Observatories, Ultraviolet radiation, Image segmentation, Mirrors, Coronagraphy, Near ultraviolet, EUV optics, Astronomical imaging, Planetary systems

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Proceedings Article | 9 September 2019 Presentation + Paper

Overview of the optomechanical design of the LUVOIR instruments

James Corsetti, Matthew Bolcar, Julie Crooke, Brian Fleming, Kevin France, Joseph Generie, Qian Gong, Tyler Groff, Jason Hylan, Andrew Jones, Lia Sacks, Garrett West, Kan Yang, Neil Zimmerman

Proceedings Volume 11115, 111150X (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530695

KEYWORDS: Optomechanical design, Imaging systems, Stars, Galactic astronomy, Telescopes, Optical design, Space telescopes, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Exoplanets

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Proceedings Article | 24 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) optical telescope element and integrated science instrument module (OTIS) cryogenic test program and results

Randy Kimble, Lee Feinberg, Mark Voyton, Juli Lander, J. Scott Knight, Mark Waldman, Tony Whitman, M. Begoña Vila Costas, Carl Reis, Kan Yang

Proceedings Volume 10698, 1069805 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309664

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, James Webb Space Telescope, Optical testing, Adaptive optics, Image segmentation, Space telescopes, Telescopes, Optical components, Wavefronts, Temperature metrology

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

The large UV/optical/infrared surveyor (LUVOIR): decadal mission study update

Matthew Bolcar, Julie Crooke, Jason Hylan, Ginger Bronke, Christine Collins, James Corsetti, Joe Generie, Qian Gong, Tyler Groff, William Hayden, Andrew Jones, Bryan Matonak, Sang Park, Lia Sacks, Garrett West, Kan Yang, Neil Zimmerman

Proceedings Volume 10698, 106980O (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313350

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Coronagraphy, Near infrared, Observatories, Spectrographs, Imaging systems, Exoplanets

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Proceedings Article | 6 September 2017 Presentation + Paper

Augmented method to improve thermal data for the figure drift thermal distortion predictions of the JWST OTIS cryogenic vacuum test

Sang Park, Timothy Carnahan, Lester Cohen, Cherie Congedo, Michael Eisenhower, Wes Ousley, Andrew Weaver, Kan Yang

Proceedings Volume 10374, 1037406 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2277116

KEYWORDS: James Webb Space Telescope, Distortion, Optical components, Optics manufacturing, Thermal modeling, Cryogenics, Finite element methods, Optical telescopes, Optical fabrication equipment, Infrared telescopes

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