The IGRINS is a near infrared high resolution spectrograph jointly developed by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute and the University of Texas at Austin. We present design and fabrication of the optomechanical mount for the five mirrors, i.e., an input fold mirror, a slit mirror, a dichroic, and two camera fold mirrors. Based on the structure analysis and the thermal analysis of finite element methods, the optomechanical mount scheme satisfies the mechanical and the thermal design requirements given by the optical tolerance analysis. The performance of the fabricated mirror mounts has been verified through three IGRINS commissioning runs.

The KASINICS (Korea Astronomy and Space science Institute Near Infrared Camera System) is a ground-based near-infrared (NIR) imaging instrument. KASINICS has offner relay optics to reduce unwanted infrared light. For the offner optics, we adopted an ultra precision machining process which is installed at KBSI (Korea Basics Science research Institute). Since the offner relay optics is made of aluminum 6061 metal material, we did several tests to reach the specification. We found that a 0.497mm radius nose bite and 220m/min machining speed are best tool and condition to make this offner optics with the precision machine. In this paper, we report the technical method of ultra precision machining and results of the KASINICS offner optics.

We have developed a control electronics system for an infrared detector array of KASINICS (KASI Near Infrared Camera System), which is a new ground-based instrument of the Korea Astronomy and Space science Institute (KASI). Equipped with a 512×512 InSb array (ALADDIN III Quadrant, manufactured by Raytheon) sensitive from 1 to 5μm, KASINICS will be used at J, H, Ks, and L-bands. The controller consists of DSP(Digital Signal Processor), Bias, Clock, and Video boards which are installed on a single VME-bus backplane. TMS320C6713DSP, FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array), and 384-MB SDRAM(Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory) are included in the DSP board. DSP board manages entire electronics system, generates digital clock patterns and communicates with a PC using USB 2.0 interface. The clock patterns are downloaded from a PC and stored on the FPGA. UART is used for the communication with peripherals. Video board has 4 channel ADC which converts video signal into 16-bit digital numbers. Two video boards are installed on the controller for ALADDIN array. The Bias board provides 16 dc bias voltages and the Clock board has 15 clock channels. We have also coded a DSP firmware and a test version of control software in C-language. The controller is flexible enough to operate a wide range of IR array and CCD. Operational tests of the controller have been successfully finished using a test ROIC (Read-Out Integrated Circuit).

The KASINICS (KASI Near Infrared Camera System) is a ground-based Near-Infrared (NIR) imaging instrument developed by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI). In this paper, we report the test results of the KASINICS camera optics system which is comprised of a 1-1 Offner relay. We measure that the surface RMS fluctuations of the Offner mirrors are at the level of 10−1−10−2 of the target wavelengths, showing that the mirrors are sufficiently smooth for NIR observations. The alignment of the Offner optics system has been checked too. Our ray-tracing simulations find that the image quality should not degrade more than the pixel size of the KASINICS ( 40μm), if a de-centering or a tilt of the Offner mirrors are within 5mm, or 2.5° . Our measurement shows that the de-centering or the tilt of the Offner mirrors are less than 1 mm or 0.5° , assuring that the KASINICS image quality are not affected by the alignment errors. We have also measured that the optics resolution is 20μm and it does not degrade more than 10% over the detector surface area of 14.3 mm / times 14.3mm. Overall, we conclude that the KASINICS optics system satisfies the design requirements for NIR imaging observations.

The reimaging optics of the KASINICS (KASI Near Infrared Camera System) includes many transparent components like an entrance window, band-pass filters, and blocking filters. As observational targets or in-field background objects, bright stars may cause optical ghosts that can significantly degrade the system performance of the KASINICS. We estimated analytically the relative brightness of ghost components with respect to a point source and examined the effects of tilting optical components as a method of suppressing ghosts. We also performed numerical ray tracings including all the optical components and found the results are consistent with those of the analytic estimations. We conclude that the KASINICS will not suffer from significant ghost effects with appropriate anti-reflection coatings and fittings for the optical components.

We have measured the correlation functions of the optically selected clusters of galaxies in the Abell and the APM catalogs, and of the X-ray clusters in the X-ray-Brightest Abell-type Clusters of galaxies (XBACs) catalog and the Brightest Clusters Sample (BCS). The same analysis method and the same method of characterizing the resulting correlation functions are applied to all observational samples. We have found that the amplitude of the correlation function of the APM clusters is much higher than what has been previously claimed, in particular for richer subsamples. The correlation length of the APM clusters with the richness R ≥ 70 (as defined by the APM team) is found to be r0 = 25.4 -3.0 +3.1 h-1 Mpc. The amplitude of correlation function is about 2.4 times higher than that of Croft et al. (1997). The correlation lengths of the Abell clusters with the richness class RC ≥ 0 and 1 are measured to be r0 = 17.4 -1.1 +1.2 and 21.0 -2.8 +2.8 h-1 Mpc, respectively, which is consistent with our results for the APM sample at the similar level of richness. The richness dependence of cluster correlations is found to be r0= 0.40dc + 3.2 where dc is the mean intercluster separation. This is identical in slope with the Bahcall & West (1992)'s estimate, but is inconsistent with the weak dependence of Croft et al. (1997). The X-ray bright Abell clusters in the XBACs catalog and the X-ray selected clusters in the BCS catalog show strong clustering. The correlation length of the XBACs clusters with Lx ≥ 0.65×10 44 h-2 erg s-1 is 30.3 -6.5 +8.2 h-1 Mpc, and that of the BCS clusters with Lx ≥ 0.70×10 44 h-2erg s-1 is 30.2 -8.9 +9.8 h-1 Mpc. The clustering strength of the X-ray clusters is much weaker than what is expected from the optical clusters.

We developed a CCD camera that can observe wide fields on the sky. We tested the field of views using various lenses. For cooling the CCD chip, we used a thermoelectric cooling device and tested the cooling efficiency. This camera will continuously observe a part of the sky. The data from the camera will be used to decide the current weather condition by the real-time star counting program (SCount) which will be developed later.

기후 변화로 인한 국지성 호우의 증가로 도시의 내수침수피해가 증가함에 따라 이중배수체계 모형의 중요성이 증가하였다. 이중배수체계 모형은 지표면의 흐름과 관거의 흐름의 현상을 보다 정확히 표현하기 위하여 표면유출과 관거 유출을 각각의 관련 방정식과 매개변수들을 통해 해석하며, 이를 시각별로 연동하여 동시에 시뮬레이션하는 모형으로 이중배수체계 모형의 침수해석 결과는 도시계획 및 침수예방을 위한 계획 수립시 중요한 자료로 사용 되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 자연유역과 도시유역이 혼재되어 있는 복합유역에 이중배수체계를 접목하여 해석이 가능한 COBRA 모형을 실제 유역에 적용하여 그 적용성을 파악해 보고 다른 이중배수체계 모형인 XP-SWMM, UFAM과 비교하여 결과의 적합성을 판단해 보았다. 동일한 대상유역에 대해 3가지 형태의 이중배수체계 모형의 침수해석 결과 및 침수양상을 분석한 결과를 종합해볼 때 우수관망의 용량 부족으로 발생하는 내수침수 특징은 XP-SWMM이 비교적 잘 모의하는 것으로 보였으며, UFAM은 도로의 빗물받이를 고려하는 특징에 따라 타 모형에 비해 가장 낮은 침수해석 결과를 나타내었다. 마지막으로 COBRA는 침수면적과 침수면적의 비율, 최대침수심이 강우량 증가에 비례하는 일반적인 결과와 토양조건에 따라 유효우량을 세밀하게 분류하여 모의하는 모형 특성 및 지표 저류에 의한 침수양상이 나타나는 현실성을 고려할 때 모형의 안정성 측면에서 양호하다고 판단되었다.