The REM optical slitless spectrograph (ROSS)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 689-700

  Tosti, Gino ^a   Bagaglia, Marco ^a   Campeggi, Carlo ^a   Masetti, Nicola ^b   Monfardini, Alessandro ^c   Nicastro, Luciano ^d   Palazzi, Eliana ^b   Pian, Elena ^e   Sciuto, Giorgio ^a   Zerbi, Filippo M ^f   Chincarini, Guido ^g   Antonelli, Lucio A ^f   Conconi, Paolo ^f   Covino, Stefano ^f   CutispotO', Giuseppe ^h   Rodonò, Marcello ^h   Molinari, Emilio ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d INAF IASF PALERMO   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^f INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^h INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Optical; Photometry; Spectrograph

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GAMMA RAYS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOMETRY; ROBOTICS;

INSTRUMENTATION; LOW RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL BAND; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 10444251057     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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