Optical turbulence in the antarctic atmosphere

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 190-198

  Lloyd, James P ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Antarctica; Interferometry; Seeing; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATOLOGY; EXTRAPOLATION; INFRARED IMAGING; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSPARENCY; WAVEFRONTS;

ANTARCTICA; FRINGE TRACKING; MID-INFRARED INTERFEROMETRY; THERMAL INFRARED;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 11144256557     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552226     Document Type: Conference Paper

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