Optical telescopes and enclosures for ground-based interferometry: The CHARA array

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3350, Issue , 1998, Pages 951-959

  Ridgway, Stephen T ^a   Barr, Lawrence D ^b   Liang, M ^a   Bagnuolo Jr , William G ^c   Hartkopf, W I ^c   McAlister, Harold A ^c   Shure, Mark A ^c   Sturmann, Laszlo ^c   Ten Brummelaar, Theo A ^c   Turner, Nils H ^c  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b BARR ENGINEERING COMPANY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; BLENDING; ENCLOSURES; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES;

COST CONTROLS; COST SAVINGS; DESIGN DECISIONS; DOME SEEING; LOW COSTS; NATURAL VENTILATION; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); SELECTION PROCESSES;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 0013135039     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317163     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

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