The Gemini-North multiobject spectrograph stability performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1189-1200

  Murowinski, Richard ^a   Allington Smith, J R ^b   Beard, S M ^c   Crampton, D ^a   Davies, R ^b   Dickson, C J ^c   Hook, I M ^d   Jorgensen I ^e   Juneau, S ^a   Marshall, G E ^c   Szeto, K ^a   Tierney, C J ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomical instrumentation; Flexure; Spectrograph

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; STIFFNESS; WAVEFRONTS;

MECHANICAL DESIGN;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 0038296082     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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