On-sky performance of the multi-object double spectrograph for the large binocular telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8446, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pogge, Richard W ^a   Atwood, Bruce ^a   O'Brien, Thomas P ^a   Byard, Paul L ^a   Derwent, Mark A ^a   Gonzalez, Raymond ^a   Martini, Paul ^a   Mason, Jerry A ^a   Osmer, Patrick S ^a   Pappalardo, Daniel P ^a   Zhelem, Ross ^a   Stoll, Rebecca A ^a   Steinbrecher, David P ^a   Brewer, David F ^a   Colarosa, Christopher ^a   Teiga, Edward J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground based astronomy; Large telescope instruments; Multi Object spectroscopy; Spectrometers

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE-BEAM; FIRST YEAR; GROUND-BASED ASTRONOMY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPE; LARGE TELESCOPES; MULTIOBJECT; MULTIOBJECT SPECTROSCOPY; SCIENCE OPERATIONS;

ASTRONOMY; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 84871972495     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.925693     Document Type: Conference Paper

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