TIMMI2 ESO's thermal infrared multimode instrument: Technical description and some scientific results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 117-128

  Käufl, Hans Ulrich ^a   Sterzik, Michael ^a   Siebenmorgen, Ralf ^a   Weilenmann, Ueli ^a   Relke, Helena ^b   Hron, Josef ^c   Sperl, Martin ^c  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b Universitats Sternwarte Jena   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Imaging; Infrared Detectors; Instrumentation; Polarimetry; Spectroscopy; Thermal Infrared

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; INFRARED DETECTORS; POLARIMETERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TELESCOPES;

THERMAL INFRARED MULTIMODE INSTRUMENTS;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 0037508928     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460335     Document Type: Conference Paper

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