Status of the thirty meter telescope site selection program

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7012, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Schöck, Matthias ^a   Els, Sebastian ^b   Riddle, Reed ^a   Skidmor, Warren ^a   Travouillon, Tony ^a   Blum, Robert ^c   Bustos, Edison ^b   Gillett, Paul ^a   Gregory, Brooke ^b   Nelson, Jerry ^d   Otárola, Angel ^a   Seguel, Juan ^b   Vasquez, Joselino ^b   Vogiatzis, Konstantinos ^a   Walker, David ^b   Wang, Lianqi ^a  

^a TMT Observatory Corp   (United States)

^b CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ELTs; Site selection; Site testing

Indexed keywords

ELTS; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SITE TESTING; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; STANDARDS;

SITE SELECTION;

EID: 66749170070     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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