An automatically controlled SCIDAR instrument for Roque de los Muchachos Observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5382, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 643-647

  Fuensalida, Jesús J ^a   Delgado, José M ^a   García Lorenzo, Begoña ^a   Hoëgemann, Claudia ^a   Reyes, Marcos ^a   Verde, Manuel ^a   Vernin, Jean ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Site Characterization; Vertical Turbulence Profiles

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTATION; SCINTILLATION DETECTION AND RANGING (SCIDAR); SITE CHARACTERIZATION; VERTICAL TURBULENCE PROFILES;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; OBSERVATORIES; SCINTILLATION; TELESCOPES; WIND EFFECTS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 5444276457     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.566373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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