Testing the CHARA telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4838, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1201-1207

  Sturmann, L ^a   Ridgway, S T ^a,b   Sturmann, J ^a   Ten Brummelaar, T A ^a   Turner, N H ^a   McAlister, H A ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Telescope; Wavefront curvature sensing

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; TELESCOPES; TESTING; WAVEFRONTS;

CURVATURE SENSING;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0037539906     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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