MMT-AO: Two years of operation with the first adaptive secondary

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 23-33

  Brusa, G ^a   Miller, D L ^a   Kenworthy, M ^a   Fisher, D ^a   Riccardi, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Adaptive secondary mirrors; Capacitive sensors; Deformable mirrors; Electromagnetic actuators

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DATA ACQUISITION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIRRORS; OBSERVATORIES; SENSORS; TELESCOPES;

ADAPTIVE SECONDARY MIRRORS; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTUATORS; MULTIPLE MIRROR TELESCOPE (MMT);

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 11144260097     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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