The Euro50 extremely large telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 214-225

  Andersen, Torben ^c   Ardeberg, Arne ^c   Beckers, Jaques ^a   Goncharov, Alexander ^c   Owner Petersen, Mette ^c   Riewaldt, Holger ^c   Snel, Ralph ^c   Walker, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Enclosure; End to end model; Laser guide stars; Optics; Segmented mirror; Telescope

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIRRORS; WIND EFFECTS;

WIND DISTURBANCES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038664203     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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