Design and tests for the Heliospheric Imager of the STEREO mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4853, Issue , 2002, Pages 12-22

  Defise, Jean Marc ^a   Halain, Jean Philippe ^a   Mazy, Emmanuel ^a   Rochus, Pierre ^a   Howard, Russel A ^b   Moses, J Daniel ^b   Socker, Dennis G ^b   Harrison, Richard ^c   Simnett, George M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baffling; Heliospheric imager; Rejection test; Straylight

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TESTING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; STEREO VISION;

CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS; HELIOSPHERIC IMAGER; MULTIVANE DIFFRACTIVE BAFFLE SYSTEM; SOLAR CORONAL PLASMA; SOLAR TERRESTRIAL RELATIONS OBSERVATORY; SUN EARTH CONNECTION CORONAL AND HELIOSPHERIC INVESTIGATION;

SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0038532168     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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