The VISTA IR camera

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 988-997

  Dalton, Gavin ^a   Caldwell, Martin ^a   Ward, Kim ^a   Whalley, Martin ^a   Burke, Kevin ^a   Lucas, John ^a   Richards, Tony ^a   Ferlet, Marc ^a   Edeson, Ruben ^a   Tye, Daniel ^a   Shaughnessy, Bryan ^a   Strachan, Mel ^b   Atad Ettedgui, Eli ^b   Leclerc, Melanie ^b   Gallie, Angus ^b   Bezawada, Naidu ^b   Clark, Paul ^c   Bissonauth, Nirmal ^c   Luke, Peter ^c   Dipper, Nigel ^c   Berry, Paul ^c   Sutherland, Will ^d   Emerson, Jim ^e   more..

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infrared camera; Instrumentation; VISTA; Wide field

Indexed keywords

INFRARED CAMERAS; INSTRUMENTATION; VISIBLE AND INFRARED SURVEY TELESCOPE FOR ASTRONOMY (VISTA); WIDE-FIELD;

ASTRONOMY; CADMIUM; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; MERCURY (METAL); MIRRORS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

CAMERAS;

EID: 10444273229     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551378     Document Type: Conference Paper

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