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Cost Scaling Laws and Their Origin: Design Strategy for an Optical Array Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C.M. Humphries ,
V.C. Reddish  and
D.J. Walshaw
C.M. Humphries
Affiliation:
Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
V.C. Reddish
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
D.J. Walshaw
Affiliation:
Hollowgate, Burncross, Sheffield S30 4TZ, UK

Abstract

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Power law relationships between cost and aperture of optical telescopes are shown to be approximations to polynomial expressions. These polynomials, which are derived for telescopes of traditional and cost-reduced design, have implications for the cost-effective design of an optical array telescope.

Type
III. Atmospheric Seeing, Interferometry, Speckle, MMTs and Arrays
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 79: Very Large Telescopes, their Instrumentation and Programs , 1984 , pp. 379 - 394
Copyright
Copyright © ESO 1984

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