Observation planning tools for the ESO VLT interferometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5493, Issue , 2004, Pages 382-391

  McKay, Derek J ^a,b   Ballester, Pascal ^a   Vinther, Jakob ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Modelling; Observation planning tools; Very Large Telescope Interferometer

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELESCOPES;

DATA FLOW; OBSERVATION PLANNING TOOLS; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE (OPD); VERY LARGE TELESCOPE INTERFEROMETERS (VLTI);

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 10444245830     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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