FALCON: A concept to extend adaptive optics corrections to cosmological fields

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5382, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 727-736

  Hammer, F ^a   Puech, M ^a   Assemat, F ^a   Gendron, E ^a   Sayede F ^a   Laporte, P ^a   Marteaud, M ^a   Liotard, A ^b   Zamkotsian, F ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Distant galaxies; Extremely large telescopes; Integrale fields spectroscopy; Micro deformable mirror

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GALAXIES; PERFORMANCE; SPACE TELESCOPES;

DISTANT GALAXIES; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; LYMAN BEAK GALAXIES (LBG); MICRO-DEFORMABLE MIRRORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 5444245054     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.566386     Document Type: Conference Paper

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