Preliminary results of the 2001-2002 Gemini sodium monitoring campaign at Cerro Tololo, Chile

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 492-503

  D'Orgeville, Céline ^a   Rigaut, François ^a   Boccas, Maxime ^a   Dainty, Chris ^b   Figueroa, Enrique ^d   Flicker, Ralf ^c   Gregory, Brooke ^d   Michaille, Laurent ^b   Quartel, John ^b   Tokovinin, Andrei ^d   Trancho, Gelys ^a   Wooder, Nick ^b  

^a GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Column density; Laser guide star adaptive optics; Mesospheric sodium layer

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; IMAGE SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SODIUM;

LASER GUIDE STARS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038737083     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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