Baffling and shielding system for a millimeter-wave balloonborne telescope

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 4227-4283

  Gervasi, Massimo ^a   De Bernardis, Paolo ^b   De Petris, Marco ^b   Masi, Silvia ^b   Pisano, Giampaolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

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EID: 0042342786     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.004277     Document Type: Article

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