Status of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) first-generation instruments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6269 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Buckley, D A H ^a   Burgh, E B ^b   Cottrell, P L ^c   Nordsieck, K H ^b   O'Donoghue, D ^a   Williams, T B ^d  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomical instruments; Fabry Perot spectroscopy; High speed astronomy; Imaging camera; Polarimetry; Science drivers; Spectrographs; VPH gratings

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLARIMETERS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS; HIGH SPEED ASTRONOMY; IMAGING CAMERAS; SCIENCE DRIVERS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749330971     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.673838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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