Infrared beam combination at the CHARA Array

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4838, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1208-1215

  Sturmann, J ^a   Ten Brummelaar, T A ^a   Ridgway, S T ^a,b   Shure, M A ^c   Safizadeh, N ^d   Sturmann, L ^a   Turner, N H ^a   McAlister, H A ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Beam combination; Infrared camera; Infrared interferometry; Long baseline interferometry; Telescope arrays

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERFEROMETRY; TELESCOPES;

BEAM COMBINATION;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0037877904     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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