Aperture Interchange Module (AIM) diffraction limited NIR spectroscopy with 3D and ALFA

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3354, Issue , 1998, Pages 222-231

  Anders, Stephan W ^a   Maiolino, Roberto ^b   Thatte, Niranjan A ^a   Genzel, Reinhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Diffraction limit; Integral field; Near infrared; Observations; Spectrographs

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION; CENTRAL OBSCURATION; CIRCUMSTELLAR DISKS; DIFFRACTION LIMIT; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; GUIDE STAR; INTEGRAL FIELD; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; K-BANDS; LASER GUIDE STAR ADAPTIVE OPTICS; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-IR; NIR SPECTROSCOPY; OBSERVATIONS; OFF-AXIS; OPTICAL CHANNELS; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTROPHYSICS; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; INFRARED DEVICES; INTERCHANGES; LIGHT; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROGRAPHS; TELESCOPES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 0039994073     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317302     Document Type: Conference Paper

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