Monte Carlo telescope performance modeling

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5497, Issue , 2004, Pages 129-139

  Hubbard, Robert P ^a   Oschmann, Jacobus M ^a  

^a NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error budgets; Image quality; Monte Carlo simulation; Solar telescope; Systems Engineering

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WAVEFRONTS;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SOLAR TELESCOPE (ATST); ERROR BUDGETS; IMAGE DEGRADATION; SOLAR TELESCOPES;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444221202     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550626     Document Type: Conference Paper

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