The Keck Interferometer autoaligner

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4838, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1246-1255

  Van Belle, G ^a   Colavita, M ^a   Ligon, R ^a   Moore, J ^a   Palmer, D ^a   Reder, L ^a   Smythe, R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Keck Interferometer

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COST EFFECTIVENESS; GALAXIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

STARS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0038399783     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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