The DEIMOS spectrograph for the Keck II telescope: Integration and testing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1657-1669

  Faber, S M ^a   Phillips, A C ^a   Kibrick, R I ^a   Alcott, B ^a   Allen, S L ^a   Burrous, J ^a   Cantrall, T ^a   Clarke, D A ^a   Coil, A L ^b   Cowley, D J ^a   Davis, M ^b   Deich, W T S ^a   Dietsch, K ^a   Gilmore, D K ^a   Harper, C A ^a   Hilyard, D F ^a   Lewis, J P ^a   McVeigh, M M ^a   Newman, J ^b   Osborne, J ^a   Schiavon, R P ^a   Stover, R J ^a   Tucker, D ^a   Wallace, V ^a   Wei, M Z ^a   Wirth, G D ^c   Wright, C A ^a   more..

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomical cameras; Astronomical spectrographs; CCDs; Flexure compensation; Ground based instrumentation; Mosaic detectors; Multi object spectrographs; Optical testing

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; IMAGE QUALITY; TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROGRAPHS;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 0037737936     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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