Staff profile
Overview
Dr Juergen Schmoll
Senior Optical Engineer
Affiliation | Telephone |
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Senior Optical Engineer in the Department of Physics | +44 (0) 191 33 44810 |
Research interests
- Balloon borne astronomy
- Cherenkov telescope design
- Integral Field spectroscopy
- Optical systems design
- Visible light and NIR astronomical spectroscopy
Publications
Conference Paper
- Bharmal, N. A., Bramall, D., Calcines Rosario, A. Z., Morris, T. J., Schmoll, J., & Staykov, L. (2022, December). WIVERN: a laboratory experiment for testing novel laser-based wavefront sensing techniques. Presented at Adaptive Optics Systems VIII
- Becker, T., Roth, M., & Schmoll, J. (2000, December). 3-D Spectroscopy with Fibers: Extraction Methods and their Limitations (Poster)
- Roth, M., Becker, T., & Schmoll, J. (2000, December). Faint Object 2-D Spectroscopy: Promise and Limitations
- Roth, M., Altmann, W., Bauer, S.-M., Becker, T., Dionies, F., Fechner, T., Hahn, T., Laux, U., Popow, E., Schmoll, J., & Wolter, D. (2000, December). PMAS: An Integral Field Spectrophotometer for the Calar Alto Observatory 3.5m Telescope (Poster)
- Schmoll, J., Popow, E., & Roth, M. (1998, December). FRD Optimization for PMAS
- Schmoll, J., Roth, M., & Laux, U. (1998, December). Lens Array and Fiber Developments for PMAS
- Sanner, J., Dieball, A., Schmoll, J., Reif, K., & Geffert, M. (1998, December). HoLiCam - A New Device For Astrometry
- Roth, M. M., Bauer, S.-M., Dionies, F., Fechner, T., Hahn, T., Laux, U., Nickel, U., Popow, E., Schmoll, J., & Wolter, D. (1998, December). PMAS -- the Potsdam multiaperture spectrophotometer: a progress report
- Reif, K., Bagschik, K., Klink, G., Kohley, R., Poschmann, H., de Boer, K., Mueller, P., Mebold, U., Schmoll, J., & Heber, U. (1998, September). BUSCA: Simultaneous imaging in 4 optical bands. Presented at Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, Heidelberg
- Bleul, H., Manthey, E., Juette, M., Pohlen, M., Schmidtobreick, L., Vanscheidt, R., Altmann, M., Sanner, J., Geffert, M., Dieball, A., & Schmoll, J. (1997, December). Morphology of comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) - quantitative analysis of the segmented coma in February 1997
Journal Article
- Gill, A. S., Benton, S. J., Damaren, C. J., Everett, S. W., Fraisse, A. A., Hartley, J. W., Harvey, D., Holder, B., Huff, E. M., Jones, W. C., Lagattuta, D., Leung, J. S.-Y., Jauzac, M., Li, L., Luu, T. V. T., Massey, R., McCleary, J. E., Nagy, J. M., Netterfield, C. B., Paracha, E., …Vitorelli, A. Z. (2024). SuperBIT Superpressure Flight Instrument Overview and Performance: Near-diffraction-limited Astronomical Imaging from the Stratosphere. Astronomical Journal, 168(2), Article 85. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad5840
- Sirks, E. L., Massey, R., Gill, A. S., Anderson, J., Benton, S. J., Brown, A. M., Clark, P., English, J., Everett, S. W., Fraisse, A. A., Franco, H., Hartley, J. W., Harvey, D., Holder, B., Hunter, A., Huff, E. M., Hynous, A., Jauzac, M., Jones, W. C., Joyce, N., …Vassilakis, G. N. (2023). Data Downloaded via Parachute from a NASA Super-Pressure Balloon. Aerospace, 10(11), Article 960. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10110960
- McCleary, J. E., Everett, S. W., Shaaban, M. M., Gill, A. S., Vassilakis, G. N., Huff, E. M., Massey, R. J., Benton, S. J., Brown, A. M., Clark, P., Holder, B., Fraisse, A. A., Jauzac, M., Jones, W. C., Lagattuta, D., Leung, J. S.-Y., Li, L., T. Luu, T. V., Nagy, J. M., Netterfield, C. B., …Tam, S. I. (2023). Lensing in the Blue. II. Estimating the Sensitivity of Stratospheric Balloons to Weak Gravitational Lensing. Astronomical Journal, 166(3), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ace7ca
- Romualdez, L. J., Benton, S. J., Brown, A. M., Clark, P., Damaren, C. J., Eifler, T., Fraisse, A. A., Galloway, M. N., Gill, A., Hartley, J. W., Holder, B., Huff, E. M., Jauzac, M., Jones, W. C., Lagattuta, D., Leung, J. S.-Y., Li, L., Luu, T. V. T., Massey, R. J., McCleary, J., …Tam, S.-I. (2020). Robust diffraction-limited near-infrared-to-near-ultraviolet wide-field imaging from stratospheric balloon-borne platforms—Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope performance. Review of Scientific Instruments, 91(3), Article 034501. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5139711
- Rulten, C., Zech, A., Okumurad, A., Laporte, P., & Schmoll, J. (2016). Simulating the optical performance of a small-sized telescope with secondary optics for the Cherenkov Telescope Array. Astroparticle Physics, 82, 36-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2016.05.002
- Banks, M. S., Sprague, W. W., Schmoll, J., Parnell, J. A., & Love, G. D. (2015). Why do animal eyes have pupils of different shapes?. Science Advances, 1(7), Article e1500391. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500391
- Acharya, B., Actis, M., Aghajani, T., Agnetta, G., Aguilar, J., Aharonian, F., Ajello, M., Akhperjanian, A., Alcubierre, M., Aleksic, J., Alfaro, R., Aliu, E., Allafort, A., Allan, D., Allekotte, I., Amato, E., Anderson, J., Anguener, E., Antonelli, L., Antoranz, P., …Zychowski, P. (2013). Introducing the CTA concept. Astroparticle Physics, 43(SI), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.01.007
- Actis, M., Agnetta, G., Aharonian, F., Akhperjanian, A., Aleksić, J., Aliu, E., Allan, D., Allekotte, I., Antico, F., & et al. (2011). Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. Experimental Astronomy, 32(3), 193-316. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-011-9247-0
- Schmoll, J., Robertson, D., Dubbeldam, C., Bortoletto, F., Pina, L., Hudec, R., Prieto, E., Norrie, C., & Ramsay-Howat, S. (2006). Optical replication techniques for image slicers. New Astronomy Reviews, 50, 263-266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newar.2006.03.006
- Schmoll, J., Dubbeldam, C., Robertson, D., & Yao, J. (2006). The Durham Micro-optics Programme. New Astronomy Reviews, 50, 337-341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newar.2006.03.009
- Roth, M. M., Kelz, A., Fechner, T., Hahn, T., Bauer, S.-M., Becker, T., Böhm, P., Christensen, L., Dionies, F., Paschke, J., Popow, E., Wolter, D., Schmoll, J., Laux, U., & Altmann, W. (2005). PMAS: The Potsdam Multi-Aperture Spectrophotometer. I. Design, Manufacture, and Performance. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 117, 620-642
- Schmoll, J., Roth, M., & Laux, U. (2003). Statistical Test of Optical Fibers for Use in PMAS, the Potsdam Multi-Aperture Spectrophotometer. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 115, 854-868
- Vanscheidt, R., Bleul, H., Manthey, E., Jütte, M., Pohlen, M., Schmidtobreick, L., Altmann, M., Dieball, A., Geffert, M., Sanner, J., Notni, P., & Schmoll, J. (2000). Quantitative Morphology Of C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) In February - April 1997. Earth, Moon, and Planets, 81, 223-231
- Dietrich, M., Peterson, B., Albrecht, P., Altmann, M., Barth, A., Bennie, P., Bertram, R., Bochkarev, N., Bock, H., Braun, J., Burenkov, A., Collier, S., Fang, L.-Z., Francis, O., Filippenko, A., Foltz, C., Gaessler, W., Gaskell, C., Geffert, M., Ghosh, K., …Zou, Z. (1999). 3C 390.3 BVRI and H photometry (Dietrich+, 1998)
- Sanner, J., Geffert, M., Brunzendorf, J., & Schmoll, J. (1999). Open star clusters. I. NGC 581 (M 103) (Sanner+, 1999)
- Sanner, J., Geffert, M., Brunzendorf, J., & Schmoll, J. (1999). Photometric and kinematic studies of open star clusters. I. NGC 581 (M 103). Astronomy and Astrophysics, 349, 448-456
- Dietrich, M., Peterson, B., Albrecht, P., Altmann, M., Barth, A., Bennie, P., Bertram, R., Bochkarev, N., Bock, H., Braun, J., Burenkov, A., Collier, S., Fang, L.-Z., Francis, O., Filippenko, A., Foltz, C., Gaessler, W., Gaskell, C., Geffert, M., Ghosh, K., …Zou, Z. (1998). Steps toward Determination of the Size and Structure of the Broad-Line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei. XII. Ground-based Monitoring of 3C 390.3. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 115, 185-
- Geffert, M., Klemola, A., Hiesgen, M., & Schmoll, J. (1997). Absolute proper motions for the calibration of the HIPPARCOS proper motion system. Astronomy and astrophysics. Supplement series, 124, 157-161. https://doi.org/10.1051/aas%3A1997186
- Geffert, M., Klemola, A., Hiesgen, M., & Schmoll, J. (1996). Hipparcos stars proper motions (Geffert+ 1997)