VLTI auxiliary telescopes: Assembly, integration and testing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4838, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 759-773

  Flebus, Carlo ^d   Gloesener, Pierre ^d   Pirnay, Olivier ^a   Ninane, Nathalie ^b   Koehler, Bertrand ^c  

^a Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems AMOS Sa   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Auxiliary Telescope; Axis Dynamic Response; Interferometry; Optical Path Length; Pointing Error; Telescope testing; Very Large Telescope; VLTI

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; INSTRUMENT TESTING; TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

OPTICAL PATH LENGTH;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0013084972     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457062     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Bertrand Koehler, Carlo Flebus, "VLTI Auxiliary Telescopes", SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4006., Munich, April 2000
2. Lorenzo Zago, Serge Droz. "A Small Parallel Manipulator for the Active Alignment and Focusing of the Secondary Mirror of the VLTI ATS". SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 4003, p. 450, Munich, 2000
3. Carlo Flebus, Marcel Cola, Eric Quertemont, "Manufacturing and Testing of the Primary Mirror unit for the ESO VLTI Auxiliary Telescopes ", SPIE proceedings Vol. 4837, Waikoloa Hawaii, August 2002
4. th Liége International Astrophysical Colloquium, July 2-5, 2001