Construction of the Hectospec: 300 Optical fiber-fed spectrograph for the converted MMT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3355, Issue , 1998, Pages 285-296

  Fabricant, D G ^a   Hertz, E N ^a   Szentgyorgyi, A H ^a   Fata, R G ^a   Roll Jr , J B ^a   Zajac, J M ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical and multi object spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL AND MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROSCOPY; WIDE FIELDS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 62849092101     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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