Slicing the Universe at affordable cost: The Quest for the MUSE Image Slicer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5249, Issue , 2004, Pages 134-145

  Hénault, François ^a   Bacon, Roland ^a   Content, Robert ^b   Lantz, Blandine ^a   Laurent, Florence ^a   Lemonnier, Jean Pierre ^a   Morris, Simon ^b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ASTROPHYSIQUE DE LYON   (France)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image Slicer; Integral Field Spectroscopy; Micro lenses; MUSE; VLT instrumentation

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; REFLECTION; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

IMAGE SLICER; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; MICRO-LENSES; MULTI UNIT SPECTROSCOPIC EXPLORER (MUSE); VLT INSTRUMENTATION;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 1942456910     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.512397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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