The development of Binospec and its optics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1134-1144

  Fabricant, Daniel G ^a   Epps, Harland W ^b   Brown, Warren ^a   Fata, Robert ^a   Mueller, Mark ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Athermal; Optical multiobject spectrograph; Wide field

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LENSES; PERFORMANCE; SPECTROGRAPHS;

MULTIOBJECT SPECTROGRAPHS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037620565     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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