Program status of NEWFIRM, the widefield infrared camera system for the NOAO 4-m telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1716-1724

  Probst, Ronald G ^a   Gaughan, Neil ^a   Abraham, Marianne ^a   Andrew, John ^a   Daly, Phil ^a   Hileman, Edward ^a   Hunten, Mark ^a   Liang, Ming ^a   Merrill, K M ^a   Repp, Roger ^a   Shaw, Richard ^a  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Array controller; Data reduction software; Infrared arrays; Infrared camera; Observation control software

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CAMERAS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICS; OPTIMIZATION; TELESCOPES;

ARRAY CONTROLLER; DATA REDUCTION SOFTWARE; INFRARED ARRAYS; INFRARED CAMERA; OBSERVATION CONTROL SOFTWARE;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 10444248833     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550801     Document Type: Conference Paper

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