Scientific results from the MMT Natural Guide Star Adaptive Optics system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 351-358

  Kenworthy, Matthew A ^a   Miller, Doug L ^a   Brusa, Guido ^a   Hinz, Philip M ^a   Fisher, Donald L ^a   Lloyd Hart, Michael ^a   Wildi, François P ^a   McCarthy Jr , Donald W ^a   Curley, Dylan L ^a   Kulesa, Craig ^a   Young, Patrick A ^a   Oppenheimer, Benjamin D ^a   Liu, Wilson ^a   Meyer, Michael R ^a   Greissl, Julia ^a  

^a Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Adaptive secondary mirror; Scientific results

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; SPECTROGRAPHS; TELESCOPES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ADAPTIVE SECONDARY MIRROR; MONOLITHIC MIRROR TELESCOPE (MMT); SCIENTIFIC RESULTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 19944407877     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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