MASS: A monitor of the vertical turbulence distribution

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 837-845

  Kornilov, Victor ^a   Tokovinin, Andrei ^b   Vozyakova, Olga ^a   Zaitsev, Andrei ^a   Shatsky, Nicolai ^a   Potanin, Serguei ^a   Sarazin, Marc ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Site testing; Turbulence profile

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER CONTROL; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; ROBOTICS; SCINTILLATION;

MULTI-APERTURE SCINTILLATION SENSORS (MASS);

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037722949     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457982     Document Type: Conference Paper

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