South Pole Telescope optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 4418-4428

  Padin, S ^a,b   Staniszewski, Z ^c   Keisler, R ^a,b   Joy, M ^d   Stark, A A ^e   Ade, P A R ^f   Aird, K A ^b   Benson, B A ^g   Bleem, L E ^a,b   Carlstrom, J E ^a,b,h   Chang, C L ^a,h   Crawford, T M ^a,b   Crites, A T ^a,b   Dobbs, M A ⁱ   Halverson, N W ^j   Heimsath, S ^b   Hills, R E ^k   Holzapfel, W L ^g   Lawrie, C ^c   Lee, A T ^g   Leitch, E M ^a,b   Leong, J ^c   Lu, W ^c   Lueker, M ^g   McMahon, J J ^a,h   Meyer, S S ^a,b,h   Mohr, J J ^l   Montroy, T E ^c   Plagge, T ^g   Pryke, C ^a,b,h   Ruhl, J E ^c   Schaffer, K K ^a,h   Shirokoff, E ^g   Spieler, H G ^m   Vieira, J D ^a,b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^f CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

ⁱ MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^k JOINT ALMA OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^m LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; POLES;

BOLOMETER ARRAY; COLD ABSORBERS; LOW BACKGROUND; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; PRIME-FOCUS; SOUTH POLE; TELESCOPE OPTICS; WIDE FIELD;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 53549118299     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.004418     Document Type: Article

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