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William Herschel Telescope

Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope (COAST)

First light: February, 1989.

Last commissioning:

Designed and built by: Astrophysics Group Cavendish Laboratory.

Description: Non-redundant masking using the WHT.

Some scientific highlights:

More information:

  • Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope
  • A. Chiavassa, X. Haubois, J. S. Young, B. Plez, E. Josselin, G. Perrin and B. Freytag, 2010, "Radiative hydrodynamics simulations of red supergiant stars - II. Simulations of convection on Betelgeuse match interferometric observations", A&A, 515, A12.



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Last modified: 21 November 2011