X-shooter near-IR spectrograph arm: Design and manufacturing methods

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6273 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Navarro, Ramon ^a   Elswijk, Eddy ^a   De Haan, Menno ^a   Hanenburg, Hiddo ^a   Horst, Rik Ter ^a   Kleszcz, Pawel ^a   Kragt, Jan ^a   Pragt, Johan ^a   Rigal, Florence ^a   Roelfsema, Ronald ^a   Schoenmaker, Ton ^a   Tromp, Niels ^a   Venema, Lars ^a   Groot, Paul ^b   Kaper, Lex ^c  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ASTRON extreme light weighting; Cryogenic; Cryogenic optical mount; Design at working temperature; Infrared; Postpolish aluminium mirror; Spectrograph; X shooter

Indexed keywords

ASTRON EXTREME LIGHT-WEIGHTING; CRYOGENIC OPTICAL MOUNTS; POSTPOLISH ALUMINIUM MIRRORS; X-SHOOTERS;

CRYOGENICS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTIMIZATION;

INFRARED SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 33749324260     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670549     Document Type: Conference Paper

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