Design and development of the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4853, Issue , 2002, Pages 240-251

  Keil, Stephen L ^a   Rimmele, Thomas ^a   Keller, Christoph ^b   Hill, Frank ^b   Radick, Richard ^c   Oschmann, Jim ^b   Warner, Mark ^b   Dalrymple, Nathan ^c   Briggs, John ^a,d   Hegwer, Steve ^a   Ren, Dequing ^a  

^a NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

High resolution solar imaging; Magnetic fields; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PLASMA FLOW; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SUN;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SOLAR TELESCOPE; CORONA; SOLAR VARIABILITY;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037854739     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460273     Document Type: Conference Paper

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