Modeling wind-buffeting of the Thirty Meter Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6271, Issue , 2006, Pages

  MacMynowski, Douglas G ^a   Blaurock, Carl ^b   Angeli, George Z ^c   Vogiatzis, Konstantinos ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Nightsky Systems Inc   (United States)

^c TMT Project Office   (United States)

^d NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND BASED OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PARAMETRIC MODELS; THIRTY METER TELESCOPES; WIND BUFFETING;

BANDWIDTH; BUFFETING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TURBULENCE;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749034858     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672706     Document Type: Conference Paper

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