The Prime Focus Imaging Spectrograph for the Southern African Large Telescope: Structural and mechanical design and commissioning

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6269 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Smith, Michael P ^a   Nordsieck, Kenneth H ^b   Burgh, Eric B ^b   Percival, Jeffery W ^b   Williams, T B ^c   O'Donohue, Darragh ^d   O'Connor, James ^d   Schier, J Alan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

^e Pilot Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexure; Mechanical Design; Opto mechanical; Prime Focus; Space Frames; Spectrograph; Structure

Indexed keywords

FLEXURE; MECHANICAL DESIGN; OPTO-MECHANICAL; PRIME FOCUS; SPACE FRAMES;

HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; POLARIMETERS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TRUSSES;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 33749359992     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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