Science instrument development for the Giant Magellan Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Jaffe, D T ^a   DePoy, D L ^b   Fabricant, D G ^c   Hinz, P M ^d   Jacoby, G ^e   Johns, M ^e   McCarthy, P ^e   McGregor, P J ^f   Shectman, S ^g   Szentgyorgyi, A ^c  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e GMTO CORPORATION   (United States)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g Carnegie Institution for Science   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCAL PLANE; GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPES; INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT; PRIMARY MIRRORS;

ASTRONOMY; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; INSTRUMENTS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 77958125696     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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