Status of VLTI control system: How to make an optical interferometer a data producing facility

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4848, Issue , 2002, Pages 95-106

  Wallander, Anders ^a   Argomedo, Javier ^a   Ballester, Pascal ^a   Bauvier, Bertrand ^a   Comin, Mauro ^a   Donaldson, Rob ^a   Duhoux, Philippe ^a   Gennai, Alberto ^a   Gilli, Bruno ^a   Housen, Nico ^a   Huxley, Alexis ^a   Karban, Robert ^a   Kiekebush, Mario ^a   Longinotti, Antonio ^a   Munoz, Ivan ^a   Duc, Thanh Phan ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Control system; Interferometer; Software engineering; VLTI

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; MIRRORS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FRINGE-TRACKING LOOP; GENERIC MULTIPROCESSOR CONTROLLER; SINGLE DISH TELESCOPE; VERY LARGE TELESCOPE INTERFEROMETER;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0036986197     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460963     Document Type: Article

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