WIRCam: The infrared wide field camera for the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 978-987

  Puget, P ^a   Stadler, E ^b   Doyon, R ^c   Gigan, P ^d   Thibault, S ^e   Luppino, G ^f   Barrick, G ^a   Benedict, T ^a   Forveille, T ^a   Rambold, W ^a   Thomas, J ^a   Vermeulen, T ^a   Ward, J ^a   Beuzit, J L ^b   Feautrier, P ^b   Magnard, Y ^b   Mella, G ^b   Preis, O ^b   Vallee, P ^c   Wang, S ^g   Lin, C ^g   Hall, D ^h   Hodapp, K ^h   more..

^a CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^e INO   (Canada)

^f GL Scientific   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Cryogenics; Infrared camera; Optics; Wide field imaging

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BALL BEARINGS; CAMERAS; CRYOGENICS; FUSED SILICA; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPACE TELESCOPES;

FILTER WHEELS; INFRARED CAMERA; WIDE-FIELD IMAGING;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 10444232747     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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