Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5382, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 85-94

  Johns, Matt ^a  

^a CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

GMT Magellan optics telescope project

Indexed keywords

GIANT MAGELLAN OPTICS TELESCOPE PROJECTS; MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROSCOPY; SEGMENTED PRIMARY MIRRORS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFRACTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MIRRORS; SENSORS; WEBSITES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 5444249190     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.566109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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