Extremely large segmented mirrors: dynamics, control and scale effects

All future Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) will be segmented. However, as their size grows, they become increasingly sensitive to external disturbances, such as gravity, wind and temperature gradients and to internal vibration sources. Maintaining their optical quality will rely more and more on a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bastaits, Renaud
Other Authors: Preumont, André
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:fr
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210122