The adaptive secondary mirror for the Large Binocular Telescope: Optical acceptance test and preliminary on-sky commissioning results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7736, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Riccardi, Armando ^a   Xompero, Marco ^a   Briguglio, Runa ^a   Quirós Pacheco, Fernando ^a   Busoni, Lorenzo ^a   Fini, Luca ^a   Puglisi, Alfio ^a   Esposito, Simone ^a   Arcidiacono, Carmelo ^a   Pinna, Enrico ^a   Ranfagni, Piero ^a   Salinari, Piero ^a   Brusa, Guido ^b   Demers, Richard ^b   Biasi, Roberto ^c   Gallieni, Daniele ^d  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Microgate srl   (Italy)

^d ADS International Sr1 ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Adaptive secondary mirrors; Adaptive telescope; Deformable mirrors; Deformable secondary mirror; Large binocular telescope

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SECONDARY MIRRORS; ADAPTIVE TELESCOPE; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; DEFORMABLE SECONDARY MIRROR; LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPE;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BINOCULARS; DEFORMATION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TESTING;

EID: 77957843773     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.858229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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