Staff profile

Prof Richard Myers, BSc Physics, PhD

Professor in the Department of Physics

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43692

Room number: 255

Member of the Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition

(email at r.m.myers@durham.ac.uk)

Departmental Responsibilities

UG Admissions Tutor

International Coordinator (Science Faculty)

Research Groups

Centre for Advanced Instrumentation

Research Interests

Adaptive Optics
Astronomical Instrumentation
CANARY UK-France On-Sky Demonstrator (WHT) for EAGLE
EAGLE (European ELT instrument) AO
Multi-Processor Real-time Control
Multi Object Adaptive Optics

Publications

Conference papers

Morris, Timothy J., Berry, Paul, Butterley, Timothy, Clark, Paul, Dunlop, Colin N., Myers, Richard M., Saunter, Christopher D., & and Wilson, Richard W. (2004), A ground-layer AO system demonstrator for the William Herschel Telescope, Advancements in Adaptive Optics. Edited by Domenico B. Calia, Brent L. Ellerbroek, and Roberto Ragazzoni. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5490, pp. 891-904 (2004) 5490: 891-904.
Bonaccini Calia, Domenico, Myers, Richard M., Zappa, Franco, Love, Gordon D., Morris, Timothy J., Hackenberg, Wolfgang K. P., & Wilson, Richard W. and Buscher, David F. (2004), Cone-effect-free adaptive optics laser guide star development for the ELTs, Advancements in Adaptive Optics. Edited by Domenico B. Calia, Brent L. Ellerbroek, and Roberto Ragazzoni. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5490, pp. 1315-1326 (2004) 5490: 1315-1326.
Soechting, Ilona K., Wilson, Richard W., Myers, Richard M., Longmore, Andy J., Benn, Chris R., Ostensen, Roy, Els, Sebastian, & Goodsell, Steven, Gregory, Tom and Talbot, Gordon (2004), Influence of restricted FOV and CCD binning in SH-WFS on the performance of NAOMI, Advancements in Adaptive Optics. Edited by Domenico B. Calia, Brent L. Ellerbroek, and Roberto Ragazzoni. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5490, pp. 574-579 (2004) 5490: 574-579.
Benn, Chris R., Blanken, Maarten, Bevil, Craige, Els, Sebastian, Goodsell, Stephen, Gregory, Tom, Jolley, Paul, Longmore, Andy J., Martin, Olivier, Myers, Richard M., Ostensen, Roy, Rees, Simon, Rutten, & Rene G. M., Soechting, Ilona, Talbot, Gordon and Tulloch, Simon M. (2004), NAOMI: adaptive optics at the WHT, Advancements in Adaptive Optics. Edited by Domenico B. Calia, Brent L. Ellerbroek, and Roberto Ragazzoni. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5490, pp. 79-89 (2004) 5490: 79-89.
Kellner, Stephan, Ragazzoni, Roberto, Gässler, Wolfgang, Diolaiti, Emiliano, Farinato, Jacopo, Arcidiacono, Carmelo, Myers, Richard & M., Morris, Tim J. and Ghedina, Adriano (2004), PIGS on sky - dream or reality?, Emerging Optoelectronic Applications. Edited by Jabbour, Ghassan E.; Rantala, Juha T. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5382, pp. 520-525 (2004) 5382: 520-525.
Love, Gordon D., Myers, Richard M., Wilson, Richard W., & Buscher, David F., Butterley, Tim and Morris, Timothy J. (2004), Sensing the atmosphere on the upward path: LGSs without focal anisoplanatism for ELTs, Emerging Optoelectronic Applications. Edited by Jabbour, Ghassan E.; Rantala, Juha T. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5382, pp. 462-467 (2004) 5382: 462-467.
Butterley, Timothy, Buscher, David F., Love, Gordon D., & Morris, Tim J., Myers, Richard M. and Wilson, Richard W. (2004), Sky-projected Shack-Hartmann laser guide star, Advancements in Adaptive Optics. Edited by Domenico B. Calia, Brent L. Ellerbroek, and Roberto Ragazzoni. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5490, pp. 966-973 (2004) 5490: 966-973.
Clark, Paul, Berry, Paul, Bingham, Richard G., Bissonauth, Nirmal, Caldwell, Martin, Dipper, Nigel A., Dunlop, Colin N., Henry, David & M., Luke, Peter, Myers, Richard M. and Robertson, David J. (2004), Wavefront sensing within the VISTA infrared camera, Optical and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy. Edited by James D. Garnett and James W. Beletic. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5499, pp. 379-386 (2004) 5499: 379-386.
Rutten, René G., Clark, Paul, Myers, Richard M., Wilson, Richard W., Bingham, Richard G., Emsellem, Eric, Gregory, Thomas, Humphreys, Ronald A., Knapen, Johan, Moretto, Gilberto, Morris, Simon L., & and Talbot, Gordon (2003), Facility class Rayleigh beacon AO system for the 4.2m William Herschel telescope, Adaptive Optical System Technologies II. Edited by Wizinowich, Peter L.; Bonaccini, Domenico. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4839, pp. 360-369 (2003) 4839: 360-369.
Myers, Richard M., Longmore, Andrew J., Benn, Chris R., Buscher, David F., Clark, Paul, Dipper, Nigel A., Doble, Nathan, Doel, Andrew P., Dunlop, Colin N., Gao, Xiaofeng, Gregory, Thomas, Humphreys, Ronald A., Ives, Derek J., Øestensen, Roy, Peacocke, P. T., Rutten, René G., Tierney, Chris J., Vick, Andrew J. A., Wells, Martyn R., Wilson, Richard & W., Worswick, Susan P. and Zadrozny, Andrew (2003), NAOMI adaptive optics system for the 4.2m William Herschel telescope, Adaptive Optical System Technologies II. Edited by Wizinowich, Peter L.; Bonaccini, Domenico. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4839, pp. 647-658 (2003) 4839: 647-658.
Thompson, Samantha, Doel, Andrew P., Bingham, Richard G., Charalambous, Andrew, Bissonauth, Nirmal, Clark, Paul, Myers, Richard M., & and Talbot, Gordon (2003), OSCA, an Optimized Stellar Coronagraph for Adaptive optics: Description and first light, Adaptive Optical System Technologies II. Edited by Wizinowich, Peter L.; Bonaccini, Domenico. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4839, pp. 1085-1092 (2003) 4839: 1085-1092.
Clark, Paul, Bissonauth, Nirmal, O'Byrne, John W., Dunlop, Colin N., Gregory, Thomas, Morris, Timothy J., Myers, Richard M., Saunter, & Christopher D. and Wilson, Richard W. (2003), Rayleigh guide star AO demonstrator for the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope, Adaptive Optical System Technologies II. Edited by Wizinowich, Peter L.; Bonaccini, Domenico. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4839, pp. 516-523 (2003) 4839: 516-523.
Love, Gordon D., Clark, Paul, Dunlop, Colin N., Kelly, & Thu-Lan, Langloids, Maud, Myers, Richard M. and Sharples, Ray M. (2002), Emulating MultiConjugate Turbulence, Beyond conventional adaptive optics a conference devoted to the development of adaptive optics for extremely large telescopes. Proceedings of the Topical Meeting held May 7-10, 2001, Venice, Italy. Edited by E. Vernet, R. Ragazzoni, S. Esposito, an 313-.
Sharples, Ray M., Myers, Richard M. and Walton, Nicholas & A. (2000), MOSAIC: a multi-object spectrograph with adaptive image correction, Proc. SPIE Vol. 4008, p. 228-236, Optical and IR Telescope Instrumentation and Detectors, Masanori Iye; Alan F. Moorwood; Eds 4008: 228-236.
Zadrozny, A., Chang, M. P. J. L., Buscher, D. F., Myers, & R. M., Doel, A. P., Dunlop, C. N., Sharples, R. M. and Arnold, R. L. (1999), First Atmospheric Compensation with a Linearized High-Order Adaptive Mirror-Electra, Astronomy with adaptive optics present results and future programs 459-.
Longmore, A. J., Wells, M., Strachan, M., Dixon, C., Peacocke, T., Myers, R. M., Humphreys, R. A., Gentles, A. B., Worswick, S. & P. and Weise, A. J. (1997), Progress on the WHT natural guide star AO system (NAOMI) [3126-03], Proc. SPIE Vol. 3126, Adaptive Optics and Applications, Robert K. Tyson and Robert Q. Fugate, Eds., p.18 3126: 18-.
Gentles, A. Bruce, Wells, Martyn, Longmore, Andrew J., & Myers, Richard M. and Humphreys, Ronald A. (1995), Natural guide star AO system for the William Herschel Telescope, Proc. SPIE Vol. 2534, p. 62-71, Adaptive Optical Systems and Applications, Robert K. Tyson; Robert Q. Fugate; Eds 2534: 62-71.
Myers, Richard M., Longmore, Andrew J., Humphreys, Ronald A., Gilmore, Gerard F., Gentles, A. Bruce, Wells, Martyn and Wilson, & Richard W. (1995), United Kingdom adaptive optics program, Proc. SPIE Vol. 2534, p. 48-97, Adaptive Optical Systems and Applications, Robert K. Tyson; Robert Q. Fugate; Eds 2534: 48-97.
Myers, Richard M., Doel, Andrew P., Dunlop, Colin N., & Major, John V., Sharples, Ray M. and Vick, Andrew J. (1994), Astronomical adaptive optics system for use on a 4-m-class telescope at optical wavelengths, Proc. SPIE Vol. 2201, p. 437-446, Adaptive Optics in Astronomy, Mark A. Ealey; Fritz Merkle; Eds 2201: 437-446.
Love, Gordon D., Doel, Andrew P., Myers, Richard M., & Purvis, Alan and Sharples, Ray M. (1994), Binary adaptive optics: a status report, Proc. SPIE Vol. 2201, p. 414-420, Adaptive Optics in Astronomy, Mark A. Ealey; Fritz Merkle; Eds 2201: 414-420.
Sharples, Ray M., Doel, Andrew P. and Myers, Richard M. (1994), Wavefront reconstruction algorithms for astronomical adaptive optics systems, Proc. SPIE Vol. 2201, p. 655-662, Adaptive Optics in Astronomy, Mark A. Ealey; Fritz Merkle; Eds 2201: 655-662.
Shanks, T., Tanvir, N. R., Doel, A. P., Dunlop, C. N., & Major, J. V. and Myers, R. M. (1993), A Virgo Galaxy Resolved via WHT MARTINI Image Sharpening, Optics in Astronomy: 32nd Herstmonceux Conference 206-.
Clegg, R. E. S., Devaney, M. N., Doel, A. P., Dunlop, C. & N., Major, J. V., Myers, R. M. and Sharples, R. M. (1993), Morphology & Kinematics of the 'Born-Again' Planetary Abell 78, IAU Symp. 155: Planetary Nebulae 155: 388-.
Doel, A. P., Dunlop, C. N., Major, J. V., Myers, R. M., & and Sharples, R. M. (1992), MARTINI - A Partial Adaptive System in the Visible; Status and Development, Progress in Telescope and Instrumentation Technologies 523-.
Doel, A. P., Dunlop, C. N., Major, J. V., Myers, R. M., & and Sharples, R. M. (1992), MARTINI - Sensing and control system design, Active and adaptive optical components; Proceedings of the Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 24-26, 1991 (A93-39559 15-74), p. 472-478 1543: 472-478.
Shanks, T., Tanvir, N., Doel, P., Dunlop, C., Myers, R., & Major, J., Redfern, M., Devaney, N. and O'Kane, P. (1991), A High Resolution, Ground Based Observation of a Virgo Galaxy, NATO ASIC Proc. 348: Observational Tests of Cosmological Inflation 205-.
Doel, A. P., Dunlop, C. N., Major, J. V., Myers, R. M., & and Sharples, R. M. (1991), MARTINI - System operation and astronomical performance, Active and adaptive optical systems; Proceedings of the Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 22-24, 1991 (A93-39451 15-74), p. 319-326 1542: 319-326.
Doel, A. P., Dunlop, C. N., Major, J. V., Myers, R. M., & and Purvis, A. (1990), Stellar image stabilization using piezo-driven active mirrors, Advanced technology optical telescopes IV; Proceedings of the Meeting, Tucson, AZ, Feb. 12-16, 1990. Part 1 (A91-23201 08-89). Bellingham, WA, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 1990, p. 179-192. Research supported by SERC 1236: 179-192.
Brown, D. S., Doel, A. P., Dunlop, C. N., Major, J. V., & Myers, R. M., Purvis, A. and Thompson, M. G. (1988), Image Stabilisation - the MARTINI Project, Very Large Telescopes and their Instrumentation, ESO Conference and Workshop Proceedings, Proceedings of a ESO Conference on Very Large Telescopes and their Instrumentation, held in Garching, March 21-24, 1988, Garching: European Southern Observatory ( 761-.
Owens, A., Myers, R. M. and Thompson, M. G. (1985), Detection of gamma-ray lines from the direction of the Crab Nebula, International Cosmic Ray Conference 1: 145-148.
Ayre, C. A., Myers, R. H., Thompson, M. G., Bhat, P. N., & and Ma, Y. Q. (1983), A catalogue of atmospheric gamma ray lines, International Cosmic Ray Conference 1: 81-84.
Ayre, C. A., Myers, R. M., Thompson, M. G., Bhat, P. N., & and Ma, Y. Q. (1983), Possible detection of gamma-ray lines from the Crab nebula, International Cosmic Ray Conference 1: 70-73.

Edited works: conference proceedings

Buscher, D.F. Doel, A.P. Andrews, N. Dunlop, C. , Morris, P.W., Myers, R.M., Sharples, R.M., Vick, A.J.A. Zadrozny, A., Haniff, C.A. & Wilson, R.W. (1996). Novel adaptive optics with the Durham University ELECTRA system.
Gilmore, G. Longmore, A. Myers, R. & Wilson, R. (1996). United Kingdom adaptive optics programs.

Journal papers: academic

Basden, A. G. & Myers, R.M. (2012). The Durham adaptive optics real-time controller: capability and Extremely Large Telescope suitability. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) 424(2): 1483-1494
Osborn, James, De Cos Juez, Francisco Javier, Guzman, Dani, Butterley, Timothy, Myers, Richard, Guesalaga, Andrés & Laine, Jesus (2012). Using artificial neural networks for open-loop tomography. Optics Express 20(3): 2420-2434.
Gendron, E., Vidal, F., Brangier, M., Morris, T., Hubert, Z., Basden, A., Rousset, G., Myers, R., Chemla, F., Longmore, A., Butterley, T., Dipper, N., Dunlop, C., Geng, D., Gratadour, D., Henry, D., Laporte, P., Looker, N., Perret, D., Sevin, A., Talbot, G. & Younger, E. (2011). MOAO first on-sky demonstration with CANARY. Astronomy & Astrophysics 529: L2.
Young, Laura K., Liversedge, Simon P., Love, Gordon D., Myers, Richard M. & Smithson, Hannah E. (2011). Not all aberrations are equal: Reading impairment depends on aberration type and magnitude. JOURNAL OF VISION 11(13): 20.
Basden, Alastair, Myers, Richard & Butterley, Timothy (2010). Considerations for EAGLE from Monte Carlo adaptive optics simulation. Applied Optics 49(31): G1-G8.
Guzman, Dani, de Cos Juez, Francisco Javier, Sanchez Lasheras, Fernando, Myers, Richard & Young, Laura (2010). Deformable mirror model for open-loop adaptive optics using multivariate adaptive regression splines. OPTICS EXPRESS 18(7): 6492-6505.
Basden, Alastair, Geng, Deli, Myers, Richard & Younger, Eddy (2010). Durham adaptive optics real-time controller. Applied Optics 49(32): 6354-6363.
Guzman, Dani, de Cos Juez, Francisco Javier, Myers, Richard, Guesalaga, Andres, Sanchez Lasheras & Fernando (2010). Modeling a MEMS deformable mirror using non-parametric estimation techniques. OPTICS EXPRESS 18(20): 21356-21369.
Osborn, James, Myers, Richard M. & Love, Gordon D. (2009). PSF halo reduction in adaptive optics using dynamic pupil masking. OPTICS EXPRESS 17(20): 17279-17292.
Basden, A. G., Butterley, T., Myers, R. M. & Wilson R. W. (2007). Durham extremely large telescope adaptive optics simulation platform. Applied Optics 46(7): 1089-1098.
Butterley, Timothy, Love, Gordon D., Wilson, Richard W., Myers, Richard M. & Morris, Timothy J. (2006). A Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor projected on to the sky with reduced focal anisoplanatism. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 368(2): 837-843.
Andersen, D., Stoesz, J., Morris, S. L., Lloyd-Hart, M., Crampton, D., Butterley, T., Ellerbroek, B., Jolissaint, L., Milton, N. M., Myers, R. M., Szeto, K., Tokovinin, A., Veran, J-P. & Wilson, R. W. (2006). Performance modeling of a wide-field ground-layer adaptive optics system. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 118(849): 1574-1590.
Morris, T. J. & Myers, R. M. (2006). WIde-field adaptive optics correction using a single rotating laser guide star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 370(4): 1783-1789.
Thompson, S. J., Doel, A. P., Bingham, R. G., Charalambous, A. Myers, R. M., Bissonauth, N. Clark, P. & Talbot, G. (2005). Results from the adaptive optics coronagraph at the William Herschel Telescope. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 364(4): 1203-1210.
Langlois, M., Saunter, C. D. , Dunlop, C. N., Myers, R. M. & Love, G. (2004). Multiconjugate adaptive optics: laboratory experience. Optics Express, vol. 12, Issue 8, p.1689 12: 1689-.
Buscher, D. F., Love, G. D. & Myers, R. M. (2002). Laser beacon wave-front sensing without focal anisoplanatism. Optics Letters 27(3): 149-151.
Sharples, R.M., Allington-Smith, J.R., Buscher, D.F., Content, R., Haynes, R. & Myers, R.M. (2001). Recent developments in spectroscopy. New Astronomy Review 45: 77-81.
Dale, S. R., Love, G. D., Myers, R. M. & Naumov, A. F. (2001). Wavefront correction using a self-referencing phase conjugation system based on a Zernike cell. Optics Communications 191(1-2): 31-38.
Kelly, T. L., Buscher, D. F., Clark, P., Dunlop, C. N., Love, G. D., Myers, R. M., Sharples, R. M. & Zadrozny, A. (2000). Dual-conjugate wavefront generation for adaptive optics. Optics Express 7(11): 368-374.
Doel, A. P., Dunlop, C. N., Buscher, D. F., Myers, R. M., & Sharples, R. M. and Major, J. V. (2000). The MARTINI adaptive optics instrument. New Astronomy 5: 223-233.
Love, Gordon D., Andrews, Nigel, Birch, Philip, Buscher, David, Doel, Peter, Dunlop, Colin, Major, John, Myers, Richard, Purvis, Alan, Sharples, Ray, Vick, Andrew, Zadrozny, Andrew, Restaino, Sergio R., & and Glindemann, Andreas (1995). Binary adaptive optics: atmospheric wave-front correction with a half-wave phase shifter. Applied Optics 34: 6058-.
Shanks, T., Major, J. V., Doel, A. P., Dunlop, C. N., & Myers, R. M., Ratcliffe, A. and Tanvir, N. R. (1993). High resolution imaging of Virgo galaxies. GEMINI Newsletter Royal Greenwich Observatory 42: 1-5.
Shanks, T., Tanvir, N. R., Major, J. V., Doel, A. P., & Dunlop, C. N. and Myers, R. M. (1992). High-resolution imaging of Virgo cluster galaxies. II - Detection of the brightest stars in NGC 4523. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 256: 29P-32P.
Tanvir, N. R., Shanks, T., Major, J. V., Doel, A. P., & Dunlop, C. N., Myers, R. M., Redfern, R. M., O'Kane, P. and Devaney, M. N. (1991). High-resolution imaging of Virgo cluster galaxies. I - Observational techniques and first results. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 253: 21P-24P.
Myers, Richard Michael (1989). High Spectral Resolution Gamma Ray Astronomy in the Energy Region 50 KEV to 10 Mev. Ph.D. Thesis
Ayre, C. A., Myers, R. M., Thompson, M. G., Bhat, P. N., & and Ma, Y. Q. (1983). Gamma-ray line features from the Crab Nebula in the energy range 50-2000 keV. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 205: 285-295.

Other publications: research

Benn, C. R., Ostensen, R., Els, S., Prada, F., Gregory, & T. and Myers, R. (2002). NAOMI -- Common-User Adaptive Optics at the WHT. The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING Newsl.), issue no. 6, p. 21 6: 21-.
Benn, C., Longmore, A., Myers, R., Gregory, T. and & Davenhall, C. (2001). NAOMI - Adaptive Optics at the WHT. The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING Newsl.), issue no. 4, p. 21-22 4: 21-22.
Benn, C., Ostensen, R., Myers, R., Gregory, T. and & Longmore, A. (2001). NAOMI News. The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING Newsl.), issue no. 5, p. 19 5: 19-.
Allington-Smith, J., Buscher, D. and Myers, R. (1999). Adaptive Optics at the WHT. The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING Newsl.), issue no. 1, p. 9-12 1: 9-12.