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Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6267 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  York, Donald G ^a   Wang, Lifan ^b   Pennypacker, Carl ^c   Cui, Xiangqun ^d   Cappellaro, Enrico ^e   Blouke, Morley ^f   Lamb, Don ^a   Storey, John ^g   Malina, Roger ^h,i   Ashley, Michael C B ^g   Basa, Stephane ^h,i   Zhou, Xu ^j   Hu, Jingyao ^j   Yuan, Xiangyan ^d   Harper, Doyal ^a   Sandford, Dale ^k   Lawrence, Jon ^g   Thorburn, Julie ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CAS   (China)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^f BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^h AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

ⁱ Lucs   (France)

^j CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^k University of Chicago   (United States)

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Author keywords

Antarctica; Astronomical transients; Gamma ray bursts; Supemovae; Telescopes; Time domain astronomy

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ASTRONOMICAL TRANSIENTS; GAMMA RAY BURSTS; SUPEMOVAE; TIME DOMAIN ASTRONOMY;

ARRAYS; DATA ACQUISITION; GAMMA RAYS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PLANETS; SATELLITES; TRANSIENTS;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 33749234533     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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