The commissioning of and first results from the UIST imager spectrometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1160-1171

  Ramsay Howat, S ^a   Todd, Stephen ^a   Leggett, Sandy ^b   Davis, Chris ^b   Strachan, Mel ^a   Borrowman, Alastair ^a   Ellis, Maureen ^a   Elliot, Jim ^a   Gostick, David ^a   Kackley, Russell ^b   Rippa, Matthew ^b  

^a UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; POLARIMETERS; TELESCOPES;

BLACK HOLE; INSTRUMENT ROTATOR; OPTICAL BENCH; QUASERS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 10444253934     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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