The status of the thirty meter telescope project

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7012, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nelson, Jerry ^a   Sanders, Gary H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TMT Project   (United States)

Author keywords

Project; Status; Telescope; Thirty meter; TMT

Indexed keywords

CALTECH; DESIGN AND BUILD; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; HIGH LEVEL DESCRIPTION; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; PRELIMINARY DESIGN; PROJECT; SCIENCE INSTRUMENTATION; STATUS; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE; THIRTY-METER; TMT; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; ASTROPHYSICS; DESIGN; METRIC SYSTEM; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 66749106888     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788238     Document Type: Conference Paper

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