Thermal background fluctuations at 10 micron measured with VLTI/MIDI

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1320-1332

  Absil, Olivier ^a   Bakker, Eric J ^b   Schöller, Markus ^c   Gondoin, Philippe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GENIE; Infrared; Interferometry; MIDI; Thermal background; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CORRELATION METHODS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MIRRORS; TELESCOPES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

GENIE; MID INFRARED INSTRUMENTS (MIDI); THERMAL BACKGROUND; VERY LARGE TELESCOPE INTERFEROMETERS (VLTI);

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 11144315965     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.549311     Document Type: Conference Paper

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