The LBT facility SCIDAR: Recent results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 825-836

  McKenna, Daniel L ^a   Avila, Remy ^b   Hill, John M ^a   Hippler, Stefan ^c   Salinari, Piero ^d   Stanton, Paul ^e   Weiss, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^e Alacron   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; SCIDAR; Scintillation; Seeing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; INFRARED IMAGING; SCINTILLATION; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038398879     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459302     Document Type: Conference Paper

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