Upgrade plans for Subaru AO system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 32-43

  Hayano, Yutaka ^a   Takami, Hideki ^a   Gaessler, Wolfgang ^b   Takato, Naruhisa ^a   Goto, Miwa ^c   Kamata, Yukiko ^a   Minowa, Yousuke ^a   Kobayashi, Naoto ^a   Iye, Masanori ^a  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Laser guide star; Mauna Kea; Subaru telescope

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; TELESCOPES;

BEAM RELAY SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038737889     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459679     Document Type: Conference Paper

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