KIR: The high-spatial resolution 1024 x 1024 near-infrared camera of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3354, Issue , 1998, Pages 760-768

  Doyon, Rene ^a   Nadeau, Daniel ^a   Vallée, Philippe ^a   Starr, Barry M ^b   Cuillandre, Jean Charles ^b   Beuzit, Jean Luc ^b   Beigbeder, F ^c   Brau Nogue, Sylvie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE   (United States)

^c OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Infrared cameras

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION LIMITED; HGCDTE; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMAGE SCALE; INFRARED CAMERAS; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-IR; REFRACTIVE OPTICS; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES; TEMPERATURE INDICATING CAMERAS;

LIGHT;

EID: 60949097298     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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