Photo of the Week - August 6, 2008
July was a very busy month for the group members involved in the laser-based "astro-comb" project. This new laser-measuring device will provide a critical advance in the resolution of current planet-finding techniques, making the discovery of Earth-sized planets outside our solar system, called "exoplanets", possible. After lab-based development work during the first half of 2008, the equipment was disassembled and shipped to the MMT Observatory in Arizona, a 6.5-meter-diameter optical telescope located on the summit of Mt. Hopkins, 30 miles south of Tucson, Arizona. David, Claire, Chih-Hao and Alex spent over two weeks there, re-assembling the astro-comb, and interfacing it to spectrographs already in use on the smaller telescopes at MMT. The above picture shows David and Alex hard at work during the re-assembly stage in Arizona. More details on this new and exciting project can be found here.
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