A Lunar Liquid Mirror Telescope (LLMT) for deep-field infrared observations near the lunar pole

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6265 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Angel, Roger ^a   Eisenstei, Dan ^a   Sivanandam, Suresh ^a   Worden, Simon P ^a   Burge, Jim ^a   Borra, Ermanno ^b   Gosselin, Clément ^b   Seddiki, Omar ^b   Hickson, Paul ^c   Ki Bui, Ma ^d   Foing, Bernard ^e   Josset, Jean Luc ^f   Thibault, Simon ^g   Van Susante, Paul ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^e ESA/ESTEC/SCI S   (Netherlands)

^f ESA/ESTEC/SCI S ^*  (Switzerland)

^g ImmerVision   (Canada)

^h Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Early universe; Lunar telescopes; Rotating cryogenic liquid mirrors

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; INFRARED DEVICES; SPACE TELESCOPES; SUN; SURVEYING;

6 M JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE; EARLY UNIVERSE; LUNAR TELESCOPES; ROTATING CRYOGENIC LIQUID MIRRORS;

LUNAR MISSIONS;

EID: 33749002280     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.669994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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