Importance of telescope alignment for the performance of a stellar interferometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3350, Issue , 1998, Pages 414-423

  Porro, Irene L ^a,b   Traub, Wesley A ^a   Carleton, Nathaniel P ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Stellar interferometry; Strehl; Telescope alignment

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ASTROPHYSICS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES; VISIBILITY;

BEAM PATTERNS; BEAM SPLITTERS; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; FRINGE PATTERNS; PLANE WAVES; RESIDUAL ERRORS; STELLAR INTERFEROMETRY; STREHL; STREHL RATIOS; TELESCOPE ALIGNMENT;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 0041973295     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317105     Document Type: Conference Paper

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