Optical tests of a 2.5-m-diameter liquid mirror: Behavior under external perturbations and scattered-light measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 25, 1997, Pages 6278-6288

  Dyrseth, Girard ^a   Borra, Ermanno F ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Mirrors; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010340551     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.006278     Document Type: Article

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