Dr. William T. Thompson Profile

Dr. William T. Thompson

at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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Publications (8)

Proceedings Article | 29 August 2017 Presentation + Paper

The VUV instrument SPICE for Solar Orbiter: performance ground testing

Martin Caldwell, Nigel Morris, Douglas Griffin, Paul Eccleston, Mark Anderson, Carmen Pastor Santos, Davide Bruzzi, Samuel Tustain, Chris Howe, Jenny Davenne, Timothy Grundy, Roisin Speight, Sunil Sidher, Alessandra Giunta, Andrzej Fludra, Anne Philippon, Frederic Auchere, Don Hassler, Joseph Davila, William Thompson, Udo Schuehle, Stefan Meining, Buddy Walls, P. Phelan, Greg Dunn, Roman Klein, Thomas Reichel, Manfred Gyo, Grant Munro, William Holmes, Peter Doyle

Proceedings Volume 10397, 1039708 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272980

KEYWORDS: Vacuum ultraviolet, Imaging spectroscopy, Atmospheric plasma, Spectroscopes, Imaging systems, Atmospheric sciences, Sun, Spatial resolution, Instrument modeling, Spectroscopy

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Proceedings Article | 26 September 2013 Paper

SPICE EUV spectrometer for the Solar Orbiter mission

A. Fludra, D. Griffin, M. Caldwell, P. Eccleston, J. Cornaby, D. Drummond, W. Grainger, P. Greenway, T. Grundy, C. Howe, C. McQuirk, K. Middleton, O. Poyntz-Wright, A. Richards, K. Rogers, C. Sawyer, B. Shaughnessy, S. Sidher, I. Tosh, S. Beardsley, G. Burton, A. Marshall, N. Waltham, S. Woodward, T. Appourchaux, A. Philippon, F. Auchere, E. Buchlin, A. Gabriel, J.-C. Vial, U. Schühle, W. Curdt, D. Innes, S. Meining, H. Peter, S. Solanki, L. Teriaca, M. Gyo, V. Büchel, M. Haberreiter, D. Pfiffner, W. Schmutz, M. Carlsson, S. Haugan, J. Davila, P. Jordan, W. Thompson, D. Hassler, B. Walls, C. Deforest, J. Hanley, J. Johnson, P. Phelan, L. Blecha, H. Cottard, G. Paciotti, N. Autissier, Y. Allemand, K. Relecom, G. Munro, A. Butler, R. Klein, A. Gottwald

Proceedings Volume 8862, 88620F (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2027581

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Sensors, Solar processes, Spectroscopy, Space operations, Plasmas, Sun, Extreme ultraviolet, Space telescopes, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 11 February 2003 Paper

The COR1 inner coronagraph for STEREO-SECCHI

William Thompson, Joseph Davila, Richard Fisher, Larry Orwig, John Mentzell, Samuel Hetherington, Rebecca Derro, Robert Federline, David Clark, Philip Chen, June Tveekrem, Anthony Martino, Joseph Novello, Richard Wesenberg, Orville StCyr, Nelson Reginald, Russell Howard, Kimberly Mehalick, Michael Hersh, Miles Newman, Debbie Thomas, Gregory Card, David Elmore

Proceedings Volume 4853, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460267

KEYWORDS: Coronagraphy, Objectives, Sensors, Sun, Light scattering, Space operations, Charge-coupled devices, Stray light, Calibration, Imaging systems

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SPIE Journal Paper | 1 October 2000

Differential scrubbing in a microchannel-plate intensified CCD detector

William Thompson

OE, Vol. 39, Issue 10, (October 2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.1308486

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Microchannel plates, Sun, Cadmium sulfide, Charge-coupled devices, CCD image sensors, Solids, Optical engineering, Spectroscopy, Extreme ultraviolet

Proceedings Article | 25 November 1999 Paper

UV detectors aboard SOHO

William Thompson

Proceedings Volume 3764, (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.371084

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Charge-coupled devices, Microchannel plates, Ultraviolet detectors, Sun, Telescopes, Ultraviolet radiation, Extreme ultraviolet, Space operations, Cadmium sulfide

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Proceedings Article | 16 October 1995 Paper

Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer: an extreme-ultraviolet spectrometer for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

Barry Kent, Richard Harrison, Eric Sawyer, R. Hayes, Anthony Richards, J. Leonard Culhane, K. Norman, A. Breeveld, P. Thomas, Arthur Poland, Roger Thomas, William Thompson, Bernd Aschenbach, Heinrich Braeuninger, O. Kjeldseth-Moe, Mikhael Kuehne, Joerg Hollandt, W. Paustian, B. Bromage

Proceedings Volume 2517, (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.224918

KEYWORDS: Spectroscopy, Diagnostics, Solar processes, Extreme ultraviolet, Cadmium sulfide, Observatories, Plasmas, Spectrometer engineering, Spatial resolution, Temporal resolution

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Proceedings Article | 8 October 1992 Paper

Measurements of an intensified CCD detector for the solar and heliospheric observatory

William Thompson, Arthur Poland, Oswald Siegmund, Marvin Swartz, Douglas Leviton, Leslie Payne

Proceedings Volume 1743, (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.130705

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Microchannel plates, Charge-coupled devices, X-ray astronomy, Lamps, Extreme ultraviolet, CCD image sensors, Quantum efficiency, Light scattering, X-rays

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Proceedings Article | 1 November 1990 Paper

Intensified CCD detector using the phosphor TPB

William Thompson, Marvin Swartz, Arthur Poland

Proceedings Volume 1344, (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.23268

KEYWORDS: Aluminum, Charge-coupled devices, Extreme ultraviolet, Sensors, Coating, Visible radiation, Microchannel plates, CCD image sensors, Fiber optics, X-ray astronomy

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