Radio telescopes in practice: Halfway towards end-to-end?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4757, Issue , 2002, Pages 174-185

  Greve, Albert ^a  

^a IRAM   (France)

Author keywords

Control measurements; FEM predictions; Telescope deformations

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; BOLOMETERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; WIND EFFECTS;

TELESCOPE DEFORMATIONS;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

EID: 0036458890     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.489814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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