Mr. Roufurd Julie Profile

Roufurd Julie

Program Manager at South African Radio Astronomy Observatory

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Proceedings Article | 25 July 2024 Poster + Paper

The intelligent observatory: software for robotic operation, monitoring, and safeguarding

Carel van Gend, Stephen Potter, Nicolas Erasmus, Sunil Chandra, Hannah Worters, Moloko Hlakola, Roufurd Julie

Proceedings Volume 13101, 131012W (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018677

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Equipment, Observatories, Information operations, Robotics, Software development, Control systems, Control software, Computer architecture

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Proceedings Article | 25 July 2024 Presentation + Paper

Intelligent stargazing: the observatory control system for meter class telescopes at South African Astronomical Observatory

Sunil Chandra, Stephen Potter, Nicolas Erasmus, Carel H. D. van Gend, Moloka Hlakola, Roufurd Julie, Christian Hettlage

Proceedings Volume 13098, 130980Z (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020339

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Information operations, Observatories, Control systems, Databases, Astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 25 July 2024 Poster + Paper

Assessing sky conditions with astrometrically and photometrically calibrated all-sky images for autonomous observing

Nicolas Erasmus, John Tonry, Larry Denneau, Moloko Hlakola, Carel H. D. van Gend, Stephen Potter, Henry Weiland, Robert Siverd, Roufurd Julie

Proceedings Volume 13098, 130981U (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017927

KEYWORDS: Clouds, Sensors, Telescopes, Calibration, Stars, Observatories, Image segmentation, Astronomy, Astrometry, Cameras

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Proceedings Article | 25 July 2024 Presentation + Paper

The intelligent observatory

Stephen Potter, Nicolas Erasmus, Carel H. D. van Gend, Sunil Chandra, Hannah Worters, Moloko Hlakola, Roufurd Julie

Proceedings Volume 13098, 130980Y (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018154

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Equipment, Observatories, Information operations, Control systems, Astronomy, Imaging spectroscopy, Spectroscopes, Observational astronomy, Spectrographs

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Poster + Paper

Instrumentation at the SAAO for autonomous rapid-response observing

Nicolas Erasmus, Stephen Potter, Carel H.D. van Gend, Egan Loubser, Kathryn Rosie, Keegan Titus, Sunil Chandra, Hannah Worters, Hitesh Gajjar, Moloko Hlakola, Roufurd Julie

Proceedings Volume 13096, 130968K (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3015250

KEYWORDS: Equipment, Telescopes, Observatories, Cameras, Imaging systems, Spectrographs

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Presentation + Paper

Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) instrumentation update

Lisa Crause, Marsha Wolf, Matthew Bershady, Michael Smith, Joshua Oppor, Moses Mogotsi, Richard McCracken, Yuk Shan Cheng, Daniel Holdsworth, Willem van der Westhuizen, Etienne Simon, Malcolm Scarrott, Derryck Reid, Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay, Craig Sass, Kurt Jaehnig, Jeff Percival, Ralf Kotulla, Anthony Koeslag, Enrico Kotze, Janus Brink, Deon Lategan, David A. Buckley, Lee Townsend, John Menzies, Kathryn Rosie, Rosalind Skelton, Danièl Groenewald, Eben Wiid, Nico van der Merwe, Melanie Saayman, Alexei Kniazev, Rudi Kuhn, Tasheen Naicker, Roufurd Julie, Encarni Romero Colmenero, Paul Rabe

Proceedings Volume 13096, 1309607 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018784

KEYWORDS: Equipment, Spectrographs, Telescopes, Calibration, Collimators, Cameras, Design, Near infrared, Large telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

Software architecture of the Intelligent Observatory Local Control Unit

Carel H De R van Gend, Stephen Potter, Roufurd Julie, Paul Swart, Nicolas Erasmus, Hannah Worters, Sunil Chandra, Kgothatso Matlala

Proceedings Volume 12189, 121890R (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629978

KEYWORDS: Telescope instrument control software, Telescopes, Observatories, Computer architecture, Control systems, Information operations, Domes, Stars, Human-machine interfaces, Astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster + Paper

Development of a laser frequency comb and precision radial velocity pipeline for SALT's HRS

Lisa A. Crause, Richard A. McCracken, Derryck Reid, Daniel L. Holdsworth, Roufurd P. M. Julie, Lizette Labuschagne, Rudi Kuhn

Proceedings Volume 12184, 121844V (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630007

KEYWORDS: Frequency combs, Spectrographs, Calibration, Electronics, Observatories, Large telescopes, Astronomy, Spectral resolution

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SPIE Journal Paper | 12 January 2022

Hydrogen Intensity and Real-Time Analysis Experiment: 256-element array status and overview

Devin Crichton, Moumita Aich, Adam Amara, Kevin Bandura, Bruce Bassett, Carlos Bengaly, Pascale Berner, Shruti Bhatporia, Martin Bucher, Tzu-Ching Chang, H. Cynthia Chiang, Jean-François Cliche, Carolyn Crichton, Romeel Dave, Dirk I. De Villiers, Matt Dobbs, Aaron M. Ewall-Wice, Scott Eyono, Christopher Finlay, Sindhu Gaddam, Ken Ganga, Kevin Gayley, Kit Gerodias, Tim Gibbon, Austine Gumba, Neeraj Gupta, Maile Harris, Heiko Heilgendorff, Matt Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Pascal Hitz, Mona Jalilvand, Roufurd P. M. Julie, Zahra Kader, Joseph Kania, Dionysios Karagiannis, Aris Karastergiou, Kabelo Kesebonye, Piyanat Kittiwisit, Jean-Paul Kneib, Kenda Knowles, Emily Kuhn, Martin Kunz, Roy Maartens, Vincent MacKay, Stuart MacPherson, Christian Monstein, Kavilan Moodley, V. Mugundhan, Warren Naidoo, Arun Naidu, Laura Newburgh, Viraj Nistane, Amanda Di Nitto, Deniz Ölçek, Xinyu Pan, Sourabh Paul, Jeffrey Peterson, Elizabeth Pieters, Carla Pieterse, Aritha Pillay, Anna Polish, Liantsoa Randrianjanahary, Alexandre Refregier, Andre Renard, Edwin Retana-Montenegro, Ian H. Rout, Cyndie Russeeawon, Alireza Vafaei Sadr, Benjamin R. Saliwanchik, Ajith Sampath, Pranav Sanghavi, Mario Santos, Onkabetse Sengate, J. Richard Shaw, Jonathan L. Sievers, Oleg M. Smirnov, Kendrick Smith, Ulrich Armel Mbou Sob, Raghunathan Srianand, Pieter Stronkhorst, Dhaneshwar D. Sunder, Simon Tartakovsky, Russ Taylor, Peter Timbie, Emma Tolley, Junaid Townsend, Will Tyndall, Cornelius Ungerer, Jacques van Dyk, Gary van Vuuren, Keith Vanderlinde, Thierry Viant, Anthony Walters, Jingying Wang, Amanda Weltman, Patrick Woudt, Dallas Wulf, Anatoly Zavyalov, Zheng Zhang

JATIS, Vol. 8, Issue 01, 011019, (January 2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.011019

KEYWORDS: Hydrogen, Telescopes, Baryon acoustic oscillations, Radio astronomy, Receivers, Visibility, Physics, Signal processing, Pulsars, Observatories

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

Towards precision radial velocity science with SALT’s High-Resolution Spectrograph

Lisa Crause, Alexei Kniazev, R. Paul Butler, Rudi Kuhn, Arpita Roy, Keith Browne, Alrin Christians, Etienne Simon, Anthony Koeslag, Jonathan Love, Roufurd Julie

Proceedings Volume 11447, 1144746 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562004

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Exoplanets, Iodine cells, Calibration, Absorption, Laser development, Large telescopes, Lawrencium, Stars, Iodine

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

Design of telescope and instrument control and interface software at the South African Astronomical Observatory: building blocks of the intelligent observatory

Carel H. D. van Gend, Amanda Sickafoose, Stephen Potter, Briehan Lombaard, Pieter Swanevelder, Hitesh Gajjar, Hannah Worters, Willie Koorts, Keegan Titus, Craig Sass, Egan Loubser, Nicolas Erasmus, James O'Connor, Ramotholo Sefako, Roufurd Julie, Freya Bovim

Proceedings Volume 11452, 1145206 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562161

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Observatories, Astronomical telescopes, Astronomy, Optical instrument design, Control systems, Software development, Computer architecture, Large telescopes, Cameras

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Proceedings Article | 3 February 2017 Paper

Measuring sub-picosecond optical propagation delay changes on optical fibre using photonics and radio frequency components

Roufurd P. Julie, Thomas Abbott

Proceedings Volume 10036, 1003614 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2245747

KEYWORDS: Optical fibers, Telescopes, Clocks, Radio telescopes, Picosecond phenomena, Radio propagation, Network security, Radio optics, Photonics, Dispersion

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SPIE Journal Paper | 6 April 2015

Fiber-to-the-telescope: MeerKAT, the South African precursor to Square Kilometre Telescope Array

Tim Gibbon, Enoch K. Rotich Kipnoo, Romeo R. G. Gamatham, Andrew W. Leitch, Renier Siebrits, Roufurd Julie, Sias Malan, Warnich Rust, Francois Kapp, Thondikulam Venkatasubramani, Bruce Wallace, Adriaan Peens-Hough, Paul Herselman

JATIS, Vol. 1, Issue 02, 028001, (April 2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.1.2.028001

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Clocks, Polarization, Networks, Antennas, Birefringence, Astronomical telescopes, Optical fibers, Picosecond phenomena, Network architectures

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