Testing the Dark Energy Camera on a telescope simulator

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Diehl, H Thomas ^a   Abbott, Timothy M C ^b   Bailey, Jim ^c   Bonati, Marco ^b   Bremer, Gale ^b   Briones, Jorge ^b   Buckley Geer, Elizabeth J ^a   Cease, Herman ^a   Chi, Edward C ^a   Depoy, Darren L ^d   Estrada, Juan ^a   Finley, David ^a   Flaugher, Brenna ^a   Gerdes, David ^e   Grudzinski, Jim ^c   Hanson, Bill ^f   Hao, Jiangang ^a   Honscheid, Klaus ^g   Jackson, Cheryl ^a   Karliner, Inga ^f   Krempetz, Kurt ^a   Kuehn, Kyler W ^c   Kuhlmann, Stephen E ^c   Morgan, Jim ^c   Nord, Brian ^e   Shaw, Terri ^a   Tarle, Greg ^e   Schultz, Kenneth ^a   Sypniewski, Adam ^e   Stefanik, Andrew ^a   Thaler, Jon ^f   Walker, Alistair ^b   Wester, William ^a   Weaverdyck, Curtis ^e   Woods, Robert J ^a   Zhao, Allen ^c   more..

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f United States of America   (United States)

^g OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blanco; CTIO; Dark Energy; Dark Energy Camera

Indexed keywords

BLANCO; CTIO; DARK ENERGY; FERMILAB; PRIME-FOCUS; SYSTEM TESTING; TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS;

CAMERAS; INSTRUMENT TESTING; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SIMULATORS; SPECIFICATIONS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 78149250230     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857746     Document Type: Conference Paper

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