Laser frequency combs for astronomical observations

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5894, 2008, Pages 1335-1337

  Steinmetz, Tilo ^a,b   Wilken, Tobias ^a   Araujo Hauck, Constanza ^c   Holzwarth, Ronald ^a,b   Hänsch, Theodor W ^a   Pasquini, Luca ^c   Manescau, Antonio ^c   D'Odorico, Sandro ^c   Murphy, Michael T ^d   Kentischer, Thomas ^e   Schmidt, Wolfgang ^e   Udem, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b MENLO SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e KIEPENHEUER INSTITUT FÜR SONNENPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; COSMOLOGY; DOPPLER EFFECT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; WAVELENGTH;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; COSMOS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LASER; LASER FREQUENCY COMB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETER; TELESCOPE; VELOCITY;

EID: 51349133995     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1161030     Document Type: Article

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