The ESO Very Large Telescope

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Sep 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986s%26w....25..460m&link_type=abstract

Sterne und Weltraum (ISSN 0039-1263), vol. 25, Sept. 1986, p. 460-466. In German.

Physics

Optics

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Design Analysis, Telescopes, Active Control, Interferometry, Mirrors, Reflectors

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The operating principle and design status of the Very Large Telescope being developed for installation at ESO in 1995-1998 are reviewed and illustrated with drawings, diagrams, and photographs. The design calls for a linear array of four unenclosed 15-tonne 8-m-diameter glass-ceramic or metallic reflectors with 150-250 active-optics controllers each; combined operation of two, three, or four reflectors gives effective diameters 11.3, 13.9, and 16.0 m, respectively, and the reflectors can be moved along a 100-m track for interferometric observations.

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