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Optical and Infrared Instruments Requirements for a VLT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Harvey R. Butcher
Harvey R. Butcher*
Affiliation:
Kapteyn Observatory, Roden

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I have been asked to remark on the instrumentation which, at least from the viewpoint of the 1980's, seems most important for early implementation on a VLT in the 1990's. To avoid simply making a long list of many possibilities, each of which has some advantage over its competitors, I will divide the discussion into three parts: a summary of the principal observational advances made possible by a VLT in the 15-20 meter class; a list of what is arguably the resulting basic set of needed instruments; and a brief consideration of the telescope design features, technology development programs, and political/financial efforts required to make those instruments a reality.

Type
IV. Instrumentation - Components
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 79: Very Large Telescopes, their Instrumentation and Programs , 1984 , pp. 431 - 438
Copyright
Copyright © ESO 1984

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