William Podgorski

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 543 citations indexed

About

William Podgorski is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William Podgorski has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 543 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 27 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 17 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in William Podgorski's work include Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (32 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (12 papers) and Calibration and Measurement Techniques (10 papers). William Podgorski is often cited by papers focused on Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (32 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (12 papers) and Calibration and Measurement Techniques (10 papers). William Podgorski collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Australia. William Podgorski's co-authors include J. R. Lemen, L. Golub, A. M. Title, C. J. Wolfson, Régina Soufli, P. Boerner, Eric M. Gullikson, David L. Windt, T. D. Tarbell and R. Shine and has published in prestigious journals such as Solar Physics, Vehicle System Dynamics and Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy.

In The Last Decade

William Podgorski

52 papers receiving 515 citations

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Initial Calibration of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)

2011 289 citations P. Boerner, J. R. Lemen et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Design and fabrication of composite structures in the GMT-Consortium Large Earth Finder (G-CLEF) 2024 ·Mark Mueller, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Sagi Ben-Ami, Daniel F. Baldwin, Patricia Brennan, (unknown), Michael Eisenhower, Colby Jurgenson, K. G. McCracken, William Podgorski, Matthew R. Smith	1
2	Results from the GMT wide-field phasing testbed 2024 ·B. A. McLeod, Jan Kansky, Fernando Quirós-Pacheco, Antonin Bouchez, (unknown), Richard Demers, Stuart McMuldroch, William Podgorski, (unknown)	0
3	The wide field phasing testbed for the Giant Magellan Telescope 2022 ·SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository ·B. A. McLeod, Antonin Bouchez, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jan Kansky, Derek Kopon, (unknown), Stuart McMuldroch, William Podgorski, Richard Demers, Fernando Quirós-Pacheco, W. Schoenell, Patricio Schurter, Breann Sitarski, Guillermo González, B. Nemati, (unknown)	2
4	Piston-tip-tilt mirror array in the wide field phasing testbed for the Giant Magellan Telescope 2022 ·(unknown), B. A. McLeod, (unknown), (unknown), Jan Kansky, Stuart McMuldroch, William Podgorski, (unknown), Joseph Zajac, Antonin Bouchez, (unknown), Richard Demers, Fernando Quirós-Pacheco, Patricio Schurter, Breann Sitarski	0
5	Active X-ray Optics for Generation-X, the Next High Resolution X-ray Observatory 2014 ·M. Elvis, Roger Brissenden, G. Fabbiano, D. A. Schwartz, Paul B. Reid, William Podgorski, (unknown), M. Juda, James D. Phillips, Lester M. Cohen	0
6	Minimizing the mirror distortion for subarcsecond imaging in the Hi-C EUV telescope 2012 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·William Podgorski, (unknown), K. G. McCracken, Mark Ordway, Peter N. Cheimets, K. E. Korreck, L. Golub, Jonathan Cirtain, K. Kobayashi	4
7	Advances in the active alignment system for the IXO optics 2010 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·(unknown), Paul B. Reid, William Podgorski, D. Caldwell	2
8	SDO-AIA telescope design 2009 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Peter Cheimets, D. Caldwell, Cathy Chou, Richard Gates, J. R. Lemen, William Podgorski, C. J. Wolfson, J. P. Wuelser	12
9	A comparison of different alignment approaches for the segmented grazing incidence mirrors on Constellation-X 2008 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Paul B. Reid, (unknown), William J. Davis, Mark Freeman, Scott Rohrbach, William Podgorski, William Zhang	4
10	Atomic force microscopy characterization of Zerodur mirror substrates for the extreme ultraviolet telescopes aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory 2007 ·Applied Optics ·Régina Soufli, Sherry L. Baker, David L. Windt, Eric M. Gullikson, (unknown), William Podgorski, L. Golub	9
11	The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) for the Solar Dynamics Observatory 2006 ·Peter L. Smith, L. Golub, Jay A. Bookbinder, Paul B. Reid, E. E. DeLuca, Peter N. Cheimets, William Podgorski, A. M. Title, J. R. Lemen, P. Boerner	3
12	The role of modeling in the calibration of the Chandra's optics 2004 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·D. Jerius, Lester M. Cohen, Graham J. Edgar, Mark Freeman, T. J. Gaetz, John P. Hughes, Dan T. Nguyen, William Podgorski, (unknown), Leon P. Van Speybroeck, Ping Zhao	10
13	Constellation-X SXT optical alignment Pathfinder 2: design, implementation, and alignment 2004 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Scott M. Owens, Jason Hair, Jeffrey W. Stewart, Robert Petre, William W. Zhang, William Podgorski, (unknown), David A. Content, (unknown), (unknown)	5
14	Development of lightweight x-ray mirrors for the Constellation-X mission 2004 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·William W. Zhang, David A. Content, S. J. Henderson, John P. Lehan, (unknown), Timo T. Saha, Stephen L. O’Dell, W. D. Jones, William Podgorski, Paul B. Reid	20
15	Focus and Alignment of the AXAF Optics 1997 ·T. J. Gaetz, Lester M. Cohen, R. J. Edgar, (unknown), William Podgorski, Leon P. Van Speybroeck, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Mark Waldman	1
16	<title>Monitoring program for the coating of the AXAF flight optics</title> 1996 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Suzanne Romaine, (unknown), A. M. Clark, William Podgorski, D. Schultz, D. A. Schwartz, Leon P. Van Speybroeck, Ying Zhou, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), A. P. Shapiro, (unknown), (unknown)	3
17	Predicted X-ray Performance of the AXAF High Resolution Mirror during Ground Calibration at the Marshall Space Flight Center 1995 ·American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts ·D. Jerius, Liam Cohen, (unknown), Mark Freeman, T. J. Gaetz, John P. Hughes, E. Kellogg, William Podgorski, D. Schwartz, L. van Speybroeck, Peng Zhao	0
18	<title>Molecular contamination study of iridium-coated x-ray mirrors</title> 1994 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·(unknown), T. H. Burbine, (unknown), William Podgorski, M. Juda, Ronald F. Elsner, Stephen L. O’Dell, John M. Reynolds	4
19	Calibration of the verification engineering test article-I for AXAF using the VETA-I x-ray detection system 1992 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·E. Kellogg, Roger Brissenden, Kathryn A. Flanagan, (unknown), John P. Hughes, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), William Podgorski, D. A. Schwartz, Martin V. Zombeck	1
20	Post launch design and implementation of a momentum bias attitude control system 1979 ·Guidance and Control Conference ·Kenneth D. Phillips, G. Schmidt, William Podgorski	1

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