Liquid Mirror Telescopes: A Review
| dc.creator | Borra, E. F. | |
| dc.date | 1997-06-10 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:23:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:23:34Z | |
| dc.description | 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. | |
| dc.description | 12 pages, Postscript (from Microsoft Word). To appear in the Proceedings of a workshop on Science with Liquid Mirror Telescopes, M. Ferrari ed | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9706098 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9706098 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11293 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Liquid Mirror Telescopes: A Review | |
| dc.type | text |