Mechanical configurations for the Reionization and Transients Infrared camera (RATIR)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Farah, Alejandro ^a   Barojas, Everardo ^a   Butler, Nathaniel R ^b   Bloom, Joshua S ^b   Georgiev, Leonid ^a   González, Jesus ^a   Klein, Chris ^b   Kutyrev, Alexander ^c   Lee, William ^a   Moseley, Harvey ^c   Prochaska, J Xavier ^d   Ramírez Ruiz, Enrico ^e   Richer, Michael ^a   Watson, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FEA; Mechanical design; optomechanics; support structure

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES; CALIFORNIA; FEA; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GAMMA RAY BURSTS; INFRA-RED CAMERAS; MECHANICAL CONFIGURATIONS; MECHANICAL DESIGN; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; OPTO-MECHANICS; PROBLEM DEFINITION; REIONIZATION; SUPPORT STRUCTURE; SUPPORT STRUCTURES; SWIFT SATELLITES;

ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GAMMA RAYS; GROUND SUPPORTS; INSTRUMENTS; OBSERVATORIES; TEMPERATURE INDICATING CAMERAS; TRANSIENTS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 78149232430     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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