Development of a new mid-infrared instrument for the TAO 6.5-m Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Miyata, Takashi ^a   Sako, Shigeyuki ^a   Nakamura, Tomohiko ^a   Asano, Kentaro ^a   Uchiyama, Mizuho ^a   Onaka, Takashi ^a   Sakon, Itsuki ^a   Kataza, Hirokazu ^b   Ita, Yoshifusa ^c   Aoki, Tsutomu ^a   Doi, Mamoru ^a   Handa, Toshihiro ^a   Kato, Daisuke ^b   Kawara, Kimiaki ^a   Kohno, Kotaro ^a   Konishi, Masahiro ^a   Koshida, Shintaro ^a   Minezaki, Takeo ^a   Mitani, Natsuko ^a   Motohara, Kentaro ^a   Soyano, Takao ^a   Tanabe, Toshihiko ^a   Tanaka, Masuo ^a   Tarusawa, Ken'ichi ^a   Yoshii, Yuzuru ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atacama; imager; mid infrared; monitoring observations; spectrograph

Indexed keywords

AT-WAVELENGTH; ATACAMA; DIFFERENTIAL PHOTOMETRY; DIFFRACTION LIMITED SPATIAL RESOLUTION; FIELD OF VIEWS; GROUND BASED; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMAGER; LARGE APERTURE; MID-INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; MIDINFRARED; MONITORING CAPABILITIES; SPACE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ASTRONOMY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INDIUM ANTIMONIDES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS; MIRRORS; MONITORING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPECTROGRAPHS; WATER VAPOR;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 78149252273     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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