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" Japanese National Large Telescope and Related Engineering Developments "
edited by T. Kogure, A. T. Tokunaga.
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579994
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Kogure, T.
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Japanese National Large Telescope and Related Engineering Developments : Proceedings of the International Symposium on Large Telescopes, held in Tokyo, Japan, 29 November - 2 December, 1988 /\ edited by T. Kogure, A. T. Tokunaga.
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Dordrecht :: Springer Netherlands :: Imprint: Springer,, 1989.
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9789401720038
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: 9789401720052
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Openning Session -- Welcome Address of the Director of the National Astronomical Observatory -- Opening Address of the Chairman of the Organizing Committee -- Astronomy and Large Telescopes -- Cosmology and Large Telescopes -- How the Space Astronomy Has Extended the Horizon of Astronomy -- Radio Astronomy and Very Large Telescopes -- Large Telescope Projects -- Structure of the Keck Telescope - An Overview -- Concept and Status of the VLT Project -- Recent Progress on the Columbus Project and the Mirror Laboratory Program -- The U.S. National 8 M Telescope Project -- The Planning of Noao 8 M Telescope Enclosure and Facilities -- Progress of the Magellan Project -- The Uk Large Telescope Project -- A Progress Report on the Design of the 8 M Aperture Optical/Infrared Telescope -- The Galileo Project -- A Decade of Cost-Reduction in Very Large Telescopes (The SST as Prototype of Special-Purpose Telescopes) -- The JNLT Project -- Outline of the JNLT Project -- Finite Element Analysis of a Meniscus Mirror -- Active Optics Experiments for thin Meniscus Mirror -- Fast Optics for Large Telescopes -- Mechanical Structure of JNLT -- Dome Design of JNLT -- Evaluation of the JNLT Site -- Telescope Engineering and Fabrication of Large Mirrors -- Spin-Cast Zerodur Mirror Substrates of the 8 M Class and Lightweight Substrates for Secondary Mirrors -- Large Mirror Fabrication of Low Expansion Glasses -- Large Mirror Figuring and Testing -- Large Mirror Polishing and Figuring -- Knowledge Engineering Application in the Problem of Supporting a Large Mirror -- A Means for Improving Telescope Drives -- The Design of the Central-Axis Reflector (ZAS) -- New Plans and Achievements with Existing Telescopes -- Characteristics of Mauna Kea Relating to the Japan National Large Telescope -- Operational and Technological Developments For Ukirt -- Recent Developments At Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope -- Cooperation Aspects of International Observatories -- The Performance of the Apache Point Observatory 3.5 M Telescope -- Some Comments on Large Telescope Astronomy in Britain and Australia -- Lessons For New Large Telescopes From The AAT -- Some New Astronomical Facilities In China -- Instrumentation -- Optical Instruments For JNLT -- Infrared Instruments For JNLT -- Infrared Detector For Mid-Infrared Astronomy -- Infrared Detector Arrays and Some Applications to Spectroscopy -- Adaptive Optics for Large Telescopes -- Interferometry -- Can the Optical Very Large Array be Coupled with the JNLT? -- Optical Interferometer Between JNLT and WMKT -- The Interferometric Mode of the European Very Large Telescope -- Infrared Interferometry with Single Telescopes -- Spectral Speckle Interferometry -- Submillimeter Interferometry -- Summary of the Symposium -- Summary of the Symposium -- Obituary.
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Physics.
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Tokunaga, A. T.
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SpringerLink (Online service)
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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Large Telescopes, held in Tokyo, Japan, November 29-December 2, 1988
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