Interferometry with the Columbus Telescope: Design Considerations Based on MMT Experience and Imaging Simulations
Abstract
The Columbus Telescope is being designed for high performance interferometric applications. Many of its optical-mechanical characteristics result from direct observational experience with the 6.86 m cophased MMT. Specific measurements of the MMT's vibrational, thermal, and mechanical stabilities have strongly influenced this design.
- Publication:
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Very Large Telescopes and their Instrumentation, Vol. 2
- Pub Date:
- October 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988ESOC...30..787M