A cryogenic image slicing IFU for UKIRT - Manufacture, alignment, laboratory testing and data reduction

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4842, Issue , 2002, Pages 151-161

  Todd, Stephen P ^a   Wells, Martyn ^b   Howat, Suzanne K Ramsay ^b   Hastings, Peter R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image slicer; Infrared; Integral field; Spectrometer

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED IMAGING; LIGHT SCATTERING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

IMAGE SLICERS;

SPECTROPHOTOMETERS;

EID: 0037740642     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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