Adaptive optics sky coverage modeling for extremely large telescopes

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 35, 2006, Pages 8964-8978

  Clare, Richard M ^a   Ellerbroek, Brent L ^a   Herriot, Glen ^b   Véran, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NARROW-FIELD INFRARED ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEM (NFIRAOS); NATURAL GUIDE STAR (NGS); TEMPORAL FILTERING; TIP-TILT (TT) STAGE;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33846259828     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008964     Document Type: Article

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