Smart instrument technologies to meet extreme instrument stability requirements

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7018, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cunningham, Colin ^a   Hastings, Peter ^a   Kerber, Florian ^b   Montgomery, David ^a   Venema, Lars ^c   Vola, Pascal ^d  

^a UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Active Instruments; Flexure; Smart Structures

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOGRAPHY; SYSTEM STABILITY; TELESCOPES; THERMAL LOAD; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ACTIVE INSTRUMENTS; DIMENSIONAL CHANGES; FLEXURE; HIGH CONTRASTS; HIGH STABILITIES; INFRARED ASTRONOMIES; MASS BUDGETS; ON CURRENTS; OPTICAL-; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; RADIAL VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS; SMART INSTRUMENTS; SMART STRUCTURES; STABILITY REQUIREMENTS; TELESCOPE SYSTEMS; VIBRATION SOURCES;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 56249088679     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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