Design status of WFCAM - A wide field camera for the UK infrared telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 63-71

  Henry, David ^a   Casali, Mark ^a   Montgomery, David ^a   Burch, Keith ^a   Laidlaw, Ken ^a   Ives, Derek ^a   Vick, Andrew ^a   Bridger, Alan ^a   Lunney, David ^a   Adamson, Andy ^b   Rees, Nick ^b   Chylek, Thomas ^b   Chuter, Tim ^b  

^a UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomical instrumentation; Wide field astronomy; Wide field camera

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

WIDE FIELD ASTRONOMY;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038274088     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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