Effect of telescope alignment on a stellar interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 28, 1999, Pages 6055-6067

  Porro, Irene L ^a,b   Traub, Wesley A ^a   Carleton, Nathaniel P ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

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EID: 0038573691     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.006055     Document Type: Article

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