OmegaCAM - Technical design and performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4836, Issue , 2002, Pages 199-205

  Nicklas, Harald E ^a   Harke, Reiner ^a   Wellem, Walter ^a   Reif, Klaus ^c   Kuijken, Konrad ^d   Muschielok, Bernard ^b   Cascone, Enrico ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e AstroObservPadua   (Italy)

Author keywords

Imager; Optical filters; Survey system; Wide field system

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE SENSORS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

WIDE-FIELD SYSTEMS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037629054     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.456682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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