A decade of VLTI technical development

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4838, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 846-857

  Koehler, B ^a   Leveque S ^a   Gitton, Ph ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Commissioning; Interferometry; Internal seeing; Thermal effects; Very Large Telescope; VLTI

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; THERMAL EFFECTS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

VERY LARGE TELESCOPES;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0037723992     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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