Spectrophotometric calibration system for DECam

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Rheault, J P ^a   DePoy, D L ^a   Behm, T W ^a   Kylberg, E W ^a   Cabral, Kris ^a   Allen, Rick ^a   Marshall, J L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

calibration; DECam; detector; instrumentation; photometry

Indexed keywords

BEAM PATH; CALIBRATION SYSTEM; DECAM; FIBER BUNDLES; INSTRUMENTAL RESPONSE FUNCTION; INSTRUMENTATION; LAMBERTIAN; OUTPUT POWER; TUNABLE SOURCE;

CALIBRATION; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT SOURCES; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 78149251743     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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