High-resolution optical modeling of the thirty meter telescope for systematic performance trades

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7017, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nissly, Carl ^a,c   Seo, Byoung Joon ^a,c   Troy, Mitchell ^a,c   Angeli, George ^b,c   Angione, John ^a,c   Crossfield, Ian ^d   Ellerbroek, Brent ^b,c   Gilles, Luc ^b,c   Sigrist, Norbert ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

MACOS; NFIRAOS; Optical Modeling; Point Source Sensitivity; Thirty Meter Telescope

Indexed keywords

MACOS; NFIRAOS; OPTICAL MODELING; POINT SOURCE SENSITIVITY; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; BUDGET CONTROL; COMMERCE; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT; METRIC SYSTEM; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 66849143858     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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