High-accuracy differential image motion monitor measurements for the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing program

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 6460-6468

  Lianqi, Wang ^a   Schock, Matthias ^b   Chanan, Gary ^a   Skidmore, Warren ^b   Blum, Robert ^c   Bustos, Edison ^d   Els, Sebastian ^d   Riddle, Reed ^b   Seguei, Juan ^d   Travouillon, Tony ^b   Vasquez, Joselino ^d   Walker, David ^d   Gillett, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Thirty Meter Telescope Project   (United States)

^c NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL SITE CHARACTERIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL IMAGE MOTION MONITORS (DIMM); HIGH-ACCURACY MEASUREMENTS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 36148991826     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.006460     Document Type: Article

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6. These data are available at http://www.ctio.noao.edu/ telescopes/dimm/dimm.html (2002).