When I was a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, I made the control software and the data reduction software of the Fabry-Perot spectrometer, which observes diffuse NIR line emissions (Luhman et al. 1995). This spectrometer had a single InSb detector to maximize the AΩ. throughput. We installed this at various telescopes with the same AΩ. value. We surveyed diffused H2 line emissions from the central 400 pc regions of the Galaxy at the 0.9 m McDonald telescope (Pak et al. 1996) and from the LMC at the 1.5 m CTIO telescope (Pak et al. 1998). We also searched various emission lines from the star forming regions in M82 at the 5 m Palomar telescope (Pak et al. 2004).
Upon graduating, I joined the NIR IFU spectrometer project, VLT/SINFONI, in the Max-Planck-Institute fur extraterrestrische Physik (Thatte et al. 1998). I made the low-level control software of the HAWAII detector. In 1998, I returned to South Korea and participated in the Japanese IR space telescope project, AKARI (ASTRO-F). My Korean research team was in charge of observation simulations and reduction pipeline (Jeong et al. 2003; Jeong et al. 2004). I also led the NIR camera project, KASINICS, at the 1.8 m telescope in South Korea (Moon et al. 2008), and the optical camera projects, CQUEAN and SQUEAN, at the 2.1 m McDonald telescope (Park et al. 2012; Kim et al. 2016).
Recently, my research group in Kyung Hee University made the software (Le et al. 2015; Lee et al. 2020; Sim et al. 2014) for the Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrograph (IGRINS) at the 2.7 m McDonald telescope (Mace et al. 2016), the 4.3 m Discovery Channel Telescope, and the 8.1 m Gemini Telescopes (Mace et al. 2018). We also developed the Kyung Hee University Automatic Observing Software (KAOS, Pak et al. 2019). The KAOS system consists of universal software packages to operate semi-automatic small size (D < 1 m) telescopes. The unique strength of our software is that it is made with software engineering methods. The structured and documented architecture design allows the software system not to rely on software engineers or graduate students. We are currently working on the design of the control software for the Giant Magellan Telescope Multi-object Astronomical and Cosmological Spectrograph (GMACS, DePoy et al. 2018).
Development of Science Missions for Infrared Spectrometer IGRINS
(PI: S Pak, Sponsor: KASI, Budget: KRW 10M)
2010 Feb - 2010 Dec
Promotion of Science Research for Infrared Spectrometer IGRINS
(PI: B-C Koo, Sponsor: KASI, Budget: KRW 20M)
2010 Feb - 2010 Dec
Preparing for the GMT-era
(PI: M G Lee, Sponsor: KASI, Budget: KRW 50M)
2010 Mar - 2010 Dec
Study of Star Formation in External Galaxies
(PI: S Pak, Sponsor: Gyeonggi Science High School, Budget: KRW 14M)
2010 June - 2014 Mar
Development of Software for High Resolution Infrared Spectrometer, IGRINS
(PI: S Pak, Sponsor: KASI, Budget: KRW 400M)
2014 July - 2019 June
Proto-model Development of Off-Axis Aluminum Telescope for Space Infrared Observations
(PI: S Pak, Sponsor: National Research Foundation of Korea, Budget: KRW 450M)
