Interferometric studies of nearby galactic centers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4838, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1378-1388

  Wittkowski, Markus ^a   Duschl, Wolfgang J ^b   Hofmann, Karl Heinz ^c   Men'shchikov, Alexander B ^c   Weigelt, Gerd ^c  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active galactic nuclei; High resolution astronomy; Long baseline interferometry; Speckle interferometry

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; SPECKLE;

GALACTIC NUCLEI;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0037723841     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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