Million object spectrograph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7018, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ditto, Thomas D ^a   Ritter, Joseph M ^b  

^a DeWitt Brothers Tool Co Inc   (United States)

^b University of Hawaii   (United States)

Author keywords

Holography; MOS; Multiple object spectrograph; Primary objective grating; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; DATA RECORDING; HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFEROMETRY; INSTRUMENTS; LASER RECORDING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOGRAPHY; RADIO TELESCOPES; SPECTROGRAPHS; TELESCOPES;

ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES; BACKGROUND NOISES; DESIGN USES; FIRST ORDERS; FLOAT GLASSES; FREE SPECTRAL RANGES; INTEGRATION TIMES; LABORATORY MODELS; LOW RESOLUTIONS; MOS; MOVING PARTS; MULTIPLE OBJECT SPECTROGRAPH; MULTIPLE OBJECTS; NEW CLASSES; PLANE GRATINGS; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE GRATING; PRIMARY OBJECTIVES; RIGHT ASCENSIONS; SPECTRAL SPACINGS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 56249100733     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.790244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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