Wind buffeting effects on the Gemini 8m primary mirrors

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4444, Issue , 2001, Pages 302-314

  Cho, Myung K ^a,b   Stepp, Larry ^a   Kim, Seongho ^b  

^a Gemini 8 M Telescope Project   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gemini Observatory; Large telescopes; Structure function; Wind buffeting

Indexed keywords

BUFFETING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; WIND EFFECTS;

WIND BUFFETING EFFECTS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0035759881     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.447310     Document Type: Article

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