Results from the GMT ground-layer experiment at the Magellan Telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Athey, A ^a   Shectman, S ^a   Phillips, M ^b   Thomas Osip, J ^b  

^a CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^b LAS CAMPANAS OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; GLAO; Ground Layer; Seeing

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TURBULENCE; WAVEFRONTS;

GROUND-LAYER TURBULENCE; SEEING; WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749402138     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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