AFOS: Probing the UV-visible potential of the Antarctic Plateau

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 811-821

  Dempsey, J T ^a   Storey, J W V ^a   Ashley, M C B ^a   Burton, M G ^a   Calisse, P G ^a   Jarnyk, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Fibre optics; Optical astronomy

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; OPTICAL ASTRONOMY; SPACE-BASED INSTRUMENTS;

ASTRONOMY; DATA ACQUISITION; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 10444242585     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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