VLT Unit Telescope suitability for interferometry: First results from acceptance tests on subsystems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3350, Issue , 1998, Pages 403-413

  Koehler, Bertrand ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Performance; Very large telescope; Vibrations; Visibility loss; VLTI

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TELESCOPES; VISIBILITY;

PERFORMANCE; VERY LARGE TELESCOPE; VIBRATIONS; VISIBILITY LOSS; VLTI;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0041969364     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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