Large area solar power heliostat arrays for OSETI

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4273, Issue , 2001, Pages 161-172

  Covault, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cherenkov detectors; Gamma ray astronomy; OSETI; Solar power

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CERENKOV COUNTERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAYS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HELIOSTATS (INSTRUMENTS); PERFORMANCE; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; SOLAR ENERGY;

COSMIC RAY EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS; GAMMA RAY ASTRONOMY; LARGE AREA SOLAR POWER HELIOSTAT ARRAYS; OPTICAL SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOLAR TOWER CHERENKOV EFFECT EXPERIMENT;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 0034775165     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.435374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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