The VLTI program: A status report

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3350, Issue , 1998, Pages 800-806

  Mariotti, Jean Marie ^a   Denise, Christophe ^a   Dérie, Frederic ^a   Ferrari, Marc ^a   Glindemann, Andreas ^a   Koehler, Bertrand ^a   Levêque, Samuel A ^a   Paresce, Francesco ^a   Schöller, Markus ^a   Tarenghi, Massimo ^a   Verola, Massimo ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astrophysics at very high angular resolution; Interferometry; Very large telescopes

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; TELESCOPES;

ASTROPHYSICS AT VERY HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION; HIGH SENSITIVITY (HS); PARANAL; VERY LARGE TELESCOPE (VLT); VERY LARGE TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 20244387054     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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