Beyond conventional G-SCIDAR the ground-layer in high vertical resolution

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 III, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Egner, Sebastian E ^a   Masciadri, Elena ^b   McKenna, Dan ^c   Herbst, T M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric Turbulence; MCAO; SCIDAR; Site testing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TELESCOPES;

MCAO; SCIDAR INSTRUMENT; SITE TESTING; TURBULENT LAYERS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749381219     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671380     Document Type: Conference Paper

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