Liquid Mirror Telescopes: A Review
天体物理学
2007-05-23 v1
摘要
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.
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9706098,
title = {Liquid Mirror Telescopes: A Review},
author = {E. F. Borra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9706098},
year = {2007}
}
备注
12 pages, Postscript (from Microsoft Word). To appear in the Proceedings of a workshop on Science with Liquid Mirror Telescopes, M. Ferrari ed