The Green Bank Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6267 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Prestage, R M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active surface; Astronomy; Ground based telescopes; Metrology systems; Millimeter wave telescopes; Radio instrumentation; Radio telescopes

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ACTIVE SURFACES; GROUND BASED TELESCOPES; METROLOGY SYSTEMS; MILLIMETER WAVE TELESCOPES; RADIO INSTRUMENTATION;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749242743     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670472     Document Type: Conference Paper

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