The eye of the beholder: Designing the OWL

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 151-170

  Dierickx, P ^a   Beckers, J L ^a   Brunette, E ^a   Conan, R ^a   Fedrigo, E ^a   Gilmozzi, R ^a   Hubin, N ^a   Koch, F ^a   Le Louarn, M ^a   Marchetti, E ^a   Monnet, G ^a   Noethe, L ^a   Quattri, M ^a   Sarazin, M ^a   Spyromilio, J ^a   Yaitskova, N ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Astronomical site selection; Extremely large telescopes; OWL; Phasing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

LARGE TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038752048     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459939     Document Type: Article

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