Optical performances of the Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer of the Solar Heliospheric Observatory

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 813-826

  Pernechele, Claudio ^a   Naletto, Giampiero ^a   Nicolosi, Piergiorgio ^a   Tondello, Giuseppe ^a   Fineschi, Silvano ^b   Romoli, Marco ^b   Noci, Giancarlo ^b   Spadaro, Daniele ^c   Kohl, John L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Astrophysical Observatory of Catania   (Italy)

^d SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Space instruments; Visible polarimetry; VUV spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013065806     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000813     Document Type: Article

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