OSCA, an optimised stellar coronagraph for adaptive optics: Description and first light

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1085-1092

  Thompson, Samantha ^a   Doel, Peter ^a   Bingham, Richard ^a   Charalambous, Andrew ^a   Bissonauth, Nirmal ^b   Clark, Paul ^b   Myers, Richard ^b   Talbot, Gordon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ISAAC NEWTON GROUP OF TELESCOPES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Astronomy; Coronagraph

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RAYS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

CORONAGRAPHS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038736912     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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