Measurement of seeing and the atmospheric time constant by differential scintillations

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 957-964

  Tokovinin, Andrei ^a  

^a CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BANDPASS FILTERS; GALAXIES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYNOMIALS;

DIFFERENTIAL SCINTILLATIONS;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 0037138292     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.000957     Document Type: Article

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