Two campaigns to compare three turbulence profiling techniques at las campanas observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Osip, Joanna Thomas ^a   Bustos, Edison ^b   Goodwin, Michael ^c   Jenkins, Charles ^c   Lambert, Andrew ^d   Prieto, Gabriel ^a   Tokovinin, Andrei ^b  

^a LAS CAMPANAS OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lunar scintillation; Scintillation; Seeing; Slope detection and ranging; turbulence profile

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; ATMOSPHERE TURBULENCE; ATMOSPHERIC SEEING; DIFFERENTIAL IMAGE MOTION MONITORS; GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPES; GROUND LAYER; LUNAR SCINTILLATION; MULTI-APERTURE SCINTILLATION SENSORS; SEEING; SLOPE DETECTION AND RANGING; TURBULENCE PROFILE; TURBULENCE PROFILING;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; BUILDINGS; INSTRUMENTS; LUMINESCENCE; MOON; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RANGE FINDING; TURBULENCE;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 66249110704     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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