Atmospheric and internal turbulence measured on the very large telescope interferometer with VINCI

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4838, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1115-1126

  Di Folco, Emmanuel ^a   Koehler, Bertrand ^a   Kervella, Pierre ^b   Sarazin, Marc ^a   Coudé du Foresto, Vincent ^c   Schöller, Markus ^b   Wittkowski, Markus ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric degradation; Coherence time; Differential piston; Interferometry; Outer scale; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DATA REDUCTION; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; TELESCOPES;

INTERNAL TURBULENCE;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0037987970     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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