Slitmasks from observer to telescope: Astrometric slitmask manufacturing and control for Keck spectrographs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5496, Issue , 2004, Pages 506-517

  De Clarke, A ^a   Allen, Steven L ^a   Wirth, Gregory D ^b   Phillips, Andrew C ^a  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrometric; Configuration; Database; Process control; Quality control; Slitmask

Indexed keywords

BAR CODES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECTROGRAPHS;

ASTROMETRIC; CONFIGURATION; SLITMASK;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444223339     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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