ATST enclosure: Seeing performance, thermal modeling, and error budgets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5497, Issue , 2004, Pages 497-507

  Dalrymple, Nathan E ^a   Oschmann, Jacobus M ^b   Hubbard, Robert P ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Modeling; Seeing; Systems engineering; Thermal

Indexed keywords

OUTER SHELLS; SEEING; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMAL;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444230657     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551530     Document Type: Conference Paper

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