First light of the 6.5-m MMT adaptive optics system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5169, Issue , 2003, Pages 17-25

  Wildi, F ^a   Brusa, G ^a   Lloyd Hart, M ^a   Close, L ^a   Riccardi, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Deformable mirror; High resolution; IR astronomy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

DEFORMABLE MIRROR; INFRARED ASTRONOMY; INFRARED CAMERA;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 1842504149     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.507687     Document Type: Conference Paper

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