Active primary mirror support for the 2.1-m telescope at the san pedro mártir observatory

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 3708-3716

  Salas, L ^a   Gutierrez L ^a   Pedrayes, M H ^a   Valdez, J ^a   Orozco, B ^a   Garcia B ^a   Luna, E ^a   Ruiz, E ^a   Cuevas, S ^a   Iriarte, A ^a   Harris, O ^a   Quiroz, F ^a   Sohn, E ^a   Martinez L A ^a   Cordero, A ^b   Carrasco, C ^c   Carrillo, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Active optics; Telescope wave front aberrations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000585787     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.003708     Document Type: Article

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