Interferometry with the large binocular telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3350, Issue , 1998, Pages 881-889

  Angel, James Roger P ^a   Hill, John M ^a   Strittmatter, Peter A ^a   Salinari, Piero ^b   Weigelt, Gerd ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Interferometer; Telescope

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; BINOCULARS; INFRARED IMAGING; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SODIUM; TELESCOPES;

BEAM COMBINATION; BEAM COMBINING; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; FULL RESOLUTION (FR); HIGH CONTRAST (HC); HIGH SENSITIVITY (HS); INTERFEROMETER; LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPE (LBT); NULLING; PHASE ERROR (PE); SECONDARY MIRRORS; SINGLE EXPOSURE; TELESCOPE; WAVE-FRONT SENSING; WIDE FIELD IMAGING; WIDE-FIELD;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 58749116795     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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