Status of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) project

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 441-453

  Johns, Matt ^a   Angel, Roger ^b   Shectman, Stephen ^a   Bernstein, Rebecca ^d   Fabricant, Daniel ^c   McCarthy, Patrick ^a   Phillips, Mark ^e  

^a CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e LAS CAMPANAS OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Conceptual design; Giant Magellan Telescope; GMT Project

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BINOCULARS; BOROSILICATE GLASS; MOTION PICTURES; OPTICAL DESIGN; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES (ELT); GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPE (GMT); GMT PROJECT;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444231156     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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