Development of a variable curvature mirror for the delay lines of the VLT interferometer

Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 221-227

  Ferrari, M ^a,b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE MARSEILLE   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: miscellaneous; Techniques: interferometric; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037994626     PISSN: 03650138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/aas:1998137     Document Type: Article

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