Atmospheric conditions at a site for submillimeter-wavelength astronomy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3357, Issue , 1998, Pages 486-494

  Radford, Simon J ^a   Holdaway, Mark A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Radio telescopes; Site testing

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; POLES; RADIO TELESCOPES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; TELESCOPES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TRANSPARENCY; VAPORS; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER (FTS); INHOMOGENEITIES; PATH LENGTHS; PHASE ERROR (PE); PHASE FLUCTUATIONS; SITE TESTING; SUB-MILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS; WATER VAPOR DISTRIBUTION;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 58749090557     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317382     Document Type: Conference Paper

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