as tr o - ph / 9 70 60 98 10 J un 1 99 7 1 Liquid Mirror Telescopes : A Review

as tr o - ph / 9 60 81 54 23 A ug 1 99 6 Liquid Mirror Telescopes : A progress report

We review the present status of liquid mirror telescopes. Interferometric tests of liquid mirrors (the largest one having a diameter of 2.5 meters ) show excellent optical qualities. The basic technology is now sufficiently reliable that it can be put to work. Indeed, a handful of liquid mirrors have now been built that are used for scientific work. A 3.7-m diameter LMT is presently being built...

as tr o - ph / 9 90 12 55 19 J an 1 99 9 1 Floating Mirrors

We discuss a new technology that promises large inexpensive mirrors. We argue that it should be possible to tilt a rotating viscous liquid by perhaps as much as a few tens of degrees. The tilted liquid parabolic surface is used as the support for a thin reflecting metallic film. We demonstrate two critical steps: that a viscous liquid mirror can be tilted and that an optical quality metallic fi...

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Interferometric tests of a f/1.2 2.5-m diameter liquid mirror show RMS surface deviations ̃ λ/20 and Strehl ratios of order 0.6, showing that it is diffraction limited. The mirror is certainly better than implied by the data because of aberrations introduced by the auxiliary testing optics. We have made detailed studies of the scattered light of the mirror. We have studied the behavior of the m...

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