An instrument for commissioning the active and adaptive optics of modern telescopes: The Infrared Test Camera for the Large Binocular Telescope

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 31, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 115-130

  Foppiani, Italo ^a,b   Hill, John M ^c   Lombini, Matteo ^b   Bregoli, Giovanni ^b   Cosentino, Giuseppe ^a   Diolaiti, Emiliano ^b   Herbst, Thomas M ^d   Innocenti, Giancarlo ^b   Meschke, Daniel ^d   Miller, Douglas L ^c   Rohloff, Ralf Rainer ^d   Schreiber, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active optics; Adaptive optics; Commissioning; Infrared imaging; Large binocular telescope; LBT

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053101686     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-011-9229-2     Document Type: Article

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