Stellar Intensity interferometry: Astrophysical targets for sub-milliarcsecond imaging

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7734, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Dravins, Dainis ^a   Jensen, Hannes ^a   Lebohec, Stephan ^b   Nuñez, Paul D ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumentation high angular resolution; Instrumentation interferometers; Stars individual

Indexed keywords

AIR-CHERENKOV TELESCOPES; BROAD SPECTRAL; CHERENKOV; CIRCUMSTELLAR DISKS; EMISSION LINES; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INSTRUMENTATION INTERFEROMETERS; O-R MAPPINGS; OPTICAL ASTRONOMY; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PASS BANDS; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL LINE; STARS INDIVIDUAL; STELLAR SURFACES;

ASTROPHYSICS; INSTRUMENTS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; ROTATING DISKS; SPECTROSCOPY;

STARS;

EID: 79953047713     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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