Performance of AAOmega: The AAT multi-purpose fibre-fed spectrograph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6269 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sharp, Robert ^a   Saunders, Will ^a   Smith, Greg ^a   Churilov, Vladimir ^a   Correll, David ^a   Dawson, John ^a   Farrel, Tony ^a   Frost, Gabriella ^a   Haynes, Roger ^a   Heald, Ron ^a   Lankshear, Allan ^a   Mayfield, Don ^a   Waller, Lew ^a   Whittard, Dennis ^a  

^a ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anglo Australian observatory; Double beam spectrograph; Fibres

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPACE TELESCOPES;

ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY; DOUBLE BEAM SPECTROGRAPH; VOLUME PHASE HOLOGRAPHIC (VPH) GRATINGS;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 33749316657     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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