Solar site testing for the advanced technology solar telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 122-129

  Hill, F ^a   Beckers, J ^b   Brandt, P ^c   Briggs, J ^d   Brown, T ^e   Brown, W ^f   Collados, M ^g   Denker, C ^h   Fletcher, S ^d   Hegwer, S ^d   Horst, T ^f   Komsa, M ^d   Kuhn, J ⁱ   Lecinski, A ^e   Lin, H ⁱ   Oncley, S ^f   Penn, M ^a   Rimmele, T ^d   Socas Navarro, H ^e   Streander, K ^e  

^a NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c KIEPENHEUER INSTITUT FÜR SONNENPHYSIK   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^h NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Seeing; Site testing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLOUDS; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCINTILLATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SOLAR TELESCOPE (ATST); SEEING; SITE TESTING; SKY BRIGHTNESS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444265165     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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