G-SCIDAR measurements on Mt. Graham - Recent results

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   Gaessler, W ^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

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; DATA REDUCTION; TELESCOPES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; WAVEFRONTS;

ASTROCLIMATIC PARAMETERS; MCAO; SCIDAR; SITE TESTING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33749395791     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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