Near-focus active optics: An inexpensive method to improve millimeter-wavelength radio telescopes

Radio Science

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1053-1065

  Greve, A ^a   Baars, J W M ^b   Penalver J ^c   LeFloch, B ^c  

^a IRAM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Instituto Radioastronomia Millimetrica   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIO TELESCOPES; REFLECTION; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; WAVEFRONTS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ERROR CORRECTION; MIRRORS; POLYNOMIALS;

FOCUS CORRECTION; LARGE DIAMETER; MAIN REFLECTORS; MILLIMETER WAVELENGTH; RESIDUAL ERROR; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION; WAVEFRONT DEFORMATION; ZERNIKE POLYNOMIALS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; RADIO TELESCOPES;

BEAM DEGRADATION; HOMOLOGY DEFORMATIONS; MILLIMETER WAVELENGTH TELESCOPE; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION;

EID: 0030244215     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: 1944799X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RS01124     Document Type: Article

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