Effects of atmospheric dispersion on the PSF background level

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Owner Petersen, Mette ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Atmospheric dispersion; Extremely large telescopes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; PLANETS;

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; OPTICAL PATH LENGTH DIFFERENCE (OPD); POINT SPREAD FUNCTION (PSF);

ATMOSPHERICS;

EID: 33749388732     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671481     Document Type: Conference Paper

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