Hobby-Eberly telescope: LRS-J HAWAII-1 detector electronics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 667-676

  Tufts, Joseph R ^a   MacQueen, Phillip J ^a   Hill, Gary J ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Array; Controller; Electronics; HAWAII; HET; Hobby Eberly Telescope; IR; LRS J

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CROSSTALK; CRYOGENICS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPE;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037738000     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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