From: "Jan van Gastel" 
To: 
Reply-To: "Jan van Gastel" 


I found this article written by Suiter, about spiders:
http://home.digitalexp.com/~suiterhr/TM/Spiders.htm
And here are links to many other writings from his hand:
http://home.digitalexp.com/~suiterhr/TM/


Jan
http://home.wanadoo.nl/jhm.vangastel/


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nils Olof Carlin" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:35 AM Subject: Re: ATM Wire spiders.


>
> There is a very thorough discussion of spider diffraction in ATMJ #11,
> by Suiter and Zmek. If the issue is not available, the article *may*
> be included in the Willmann-Bell books now in print, to be released at
> the end of this month (?)
>
> > Wild guess on point one, could it be the two diffraction edges are
> further
> > apart making what appears to be a wider line but in actuality is two
> lines?
>
> It is not the "width" of the line (this is in principle the width of
> the Airy disk of the star), nor its "length" - (there was a great
> webpage by Suiter that explained the intensity distribution within the
> spike - I don't know if it still is on the web, and if so where)), but
> the intensity of the "center" portion that is strongly dependent on
> vane width.
>
> Nils Olof
>
>
>
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