Telescope system of the infrared imaging surveyor (IRIS)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3354, Issue , 1998, Pages 900-904

  Onaka, Takashi ^a   Sugiyama, Yoshikazu ^b   Miura, Shinji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIKON CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryogenic telescope; Infrared space telescope; SiC lightweight mirror

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATION; CRYOGENIC TELESCOPE; CURRENT ESTIMATES; CVD PROCESS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; FIELD OF VIEWS; FOCAL PLANE; FOCAL PLANES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; INFRARED SPACE TELESCOPE; IR IMAGING; LAUNCH CONDITIONS; LIGHT WEIGHT; LOW TEMPERATURES; NEAR-IR; PRIMARY MIRRORS; SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT; SIC LIGHTWEIGHT MIRROR; SIC MIRRORS; SMALL SIZE; SPACE MISSIONS; STAR SENSORS; SURFACE FIGURE; SYSTEM F; TELESCOPE SYSTEM;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT; CRYOGENICS; LIGHT; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TESTING; SILICON CARBIDE; SPACE TELESCOPES; SURVEYING; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 0141979573     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317291     Document Type: Conference Paper

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