The Thirty Meter Telescope site testing system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 154-164

  Skidmore, Warren ^a   Schöck, Matthias ^a   Tokovinin, Andrei ^b   Djorgovski, George ^a   Walker, Alistair ^b   Blum, Robert ^b   Travouillon, Tony ^a   Seguel, Juan ^b   Bustos, Edison ^b   Walker, David ^b   Vasquez, Joselino ^b   Gillett, Paul ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; DIMM; MASS; Microthermal probes; Seeing; Site testing; SODAR

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL TESTING;

DIFFERENTIAL IMAGE MOTION MONITOR (DIMM); MASS; MICROTHERMAL PROBES; SEEING; SITE TESTING; SODAR;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444228897     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.549384     Document Type: Conference Paper

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