The DEIMOS flexure compensation system: Overview and operational results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 799-810

  Kibrick, Robert I ^a   Allen, Steven L ^a   De Clarke, A ^a   Faber, Sandra M ^a   Phillips, Andrew C ^a   Wirth, Gregory D ^b  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

DEIMOS; Spectrograph active flexure compensation; Stray light

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE TELESCOPES; STRAY LIGHT;

DEEP IMAGING MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROGRAPH (DEIMOS); FLEXURE COMPENSATION SYSTEM (FCS); SPECTROGRAPH ACTIVE FLEXURE COMPENSATION;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 10444274054     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552327     Document Type: Conference Paper

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