Plans for a 10-m submillimeter-wave telescope at the South Pole

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3357, Issue , 1998, Pages 495-506

  Stark, Antony A ^a   Carlstrom, John E ^b   Israel, Frank P ^c   Menten, Karl M ^d   Peterson, Jeffrey B ^e   Phillips, Thomas G ^f   Sironi, Giorgio ^g   Walker, Christopher K ^h  

^a SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Astronomy; South Pole; Submillimeter; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; COSMOLOGY; DESIGN; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHT; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; POLES; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; TELESCOPES;

ANTARCTIC; BEAM SIZES; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMG); DESIGN ELEMENTS; EXIT PUPIL; FLUX DENSITIES; HIGH SENSITIVITY (HS); INSTRUMENTATION PACKAGES; PRIMARY MIRROR (PM); SECONDARY MIRRORS; SECONDARY SUPPORT; SOUTH POLE; SUB-MILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS; SUBMILLIMETER;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 0042447304     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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