Overview of the control system for the Keck interferometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4848, Issue , 2002, Pages 107-115

  Booth, A J ^a   Eychaner, G ^a   Hovland, E ^a   Johnson Jr , R L ^a   Lupton, W ^b   Niessner, A ^a   Palmer, D ^a   Reder, L J ^a   Rudeen, A C ^b   Smythe, R F ^a   Tsubota, K ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Control system; Interferometry; Real time control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; USER INTERFACES;

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE; KECK INTERFEROMETER; SINGLE BASELINE OPERATION;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0036986198     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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