Design considerations for an extremely large synthesis array

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1563-1573

  Quirrenbach, Andreas ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active Galactic Nuclei; Aperture Synthesis; Black Holes; Brown Dwarfs; Circumstellar Disks; Fiber Optics; Gamma Ray Bursts; Optical Interferometry; Stellar Atmospheres; Stellar Surfaces; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; FIBER OPTICS; GAMMA RAYS; INTERFEROMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TELESCOPES;

ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; APERTURE SYNTHESIS; BLACK HOLES; BROWN DWARFS; CIRCUMSTELLAR DISKS; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY; STELLAR ATMOSPHERES; STELLAR SURFACES;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 11144300120     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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