Optical performance of the ASTRO-F telescope at cryogenic temperatures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4850, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 230-240

  Kaneda, Hidehiro ^a   Onaka, Takashi ^b   Yamashiro, Ryoji ^c   Nakagawa, Takao ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NIKON CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryogenic Optical Testing; Cryogenic Telescope; Infrared Space Telescope; SiC Lightweight Mirror

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TESTING; SATELLITES; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

CRYOGENIC TELESCOPES;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037618935     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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