MUSE, a second-generation integral-field spectrograph for the VLT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1096-1107

  Hénault, François ^a   Bacon, Roland ^a   Bonneville, Christophe ^b   Boudon, Didier ^a   Davies, Roger ^c   Ferruit, Pierre ^a   Gilmore, Gerry ^d   Le Fevre, Olivier ^b   Lemonnier, Jean Pierre ^a   Lilly, Simon ^e   Morris, Simon ^f   Prieto, Eric ^b   Steinmetz, Matthias ^g   De Zeeuw, Tim ^h  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ASTROPHYSIQUE DE LYON   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^h LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Field splitter; Image Slicer; Integral Field Spectroscopy; Spectrometer; VLT instrumentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

FIELD-SPLITTERS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038296113     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.462334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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