Micro-arcsec imaging from the ground with intensity interferometers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6268 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ofir, Aviv ^a   Ribak, Erez N ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: high angular resolution; Instrumentation: interferometers; Techniques: interferometric

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REDUNDANCY; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CORONAGRAPHY; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION; OPTICAL BANDS; OPTICAL INTENSITY INTERFEROMETRY;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749258252     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.689123     Document Type: Conference Paper

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