Ultra-stable high resolution spectrographs for large telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3355, Issue , 1998, Pages 218-224

  Diego, F ^a   Crawford, I A ^a   Walker, D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asteroseismology; Diffraction gratings; Extra solar planets; High resolution spectrographs; Interstellar medium; Optical fibres; Stationary spectrographs

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PLANETS; TELESCOPES;

ASTEROSEISMOLOGY; EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETS; HIGH RESOLUTION SPECTROGRAPHS; INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM; OPTICAL FIBRES; STATIONARY SPECTROGRAPHS;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 62849096519     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316768     Document Type: Conference Paper

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