LAPCAT: The Large Antarctic Plateau Clear-Aperture Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6267 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Storey, John ^a   Angel, Roger ^b   Lawrence, Jon ^a   Hinz, Phil ^b   Ashley, Michael ^a   Burton, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Antarctica; Exoplanets; Infrared; Off axis; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DIFFRACTION; INFRARED RADIATION; REFLECTION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ANTARCTICA; DIFFRACTION LIMITED IMAGING; EXOPLANETS; OFF AXIS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749264033     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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