The Green Bank Telescope: Current status and early results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4837, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 944-953

  Prestage, Richard M ^a   Maddalena, Ronald J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active surface; Astronomy; Metrology systems; Radio telescope

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; LASERS; METEOROLOGY; RADAR; RADIO ASTRONOMY;

ACTIVE SURFACE;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037621522     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.456793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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