Imaging performance of telescope mirrors for far-ultraviolet astronomy

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 4513-4523

  Ohl, Raymond G ^a,b   Saha, Timo T ^c   Friedman, Scott D ^a   Barkhouser, Robert H ^a   Moos, H Warren ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

IMAGING PERFORMANCE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037493172     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004513     Document Type: Article

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