Liquid Mirror Telescopes: A Review

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I review the present status of liquid mirror telescopes. In a nutshell: LMTs do work and several have been built and used. Extensive interferometric tests of liquid mirrors (the largest one having a diameter of 2.5 meters) show diffraction limited performance. A large quantity of astronomical data have been taken at the NASA 3- m LMT and are currently being analyzed. Finally, I shall address the future of the technology as well as the issues of the field accessible to LMTs equipped with novel optical correctors.
12 pages, Postscript (from Microsoft Word). To appear in the Proceedings of a workshop on Science with Liquid Mirror Telescopes, M. Ferrari ed

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11293

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https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9706098
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