The Darwin interferometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3350, Issue , 1998, Pages 666-671

  Penny, Alan J ^a   Leger, Alain M ^b   Mariotti, Jean Marie ^c   Schalinski, Cornelius ^d   Eiroa, C ^e   Laurance, Robin J ^f   Fridlund, C V Malcolm ^f  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Darwin; Infrared; Interferometer; IRSI; Space

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; BUILDINGS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

DARWIN; INFRARED; INTERFEROMETER; IRSI; SPACE;

SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 0010935915     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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