Strategies for estimating mirror and dome seeing for TMT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6271, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Vogiatzis, Konstantinos ^a   Angeli, George Z ^b  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b TMT Project Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational Fluid Dynamics; Dome Seeing; Extremely Large Telescopes; Mirror Seeing; Thermal Modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; THERMOANALYSIS; THROUGHPUT; TURBULENCE; VENTILATION;

DOME SEEING; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; MIRROR SEEING; THERMAL MODELING;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749420421     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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