Temporal variability of the seeing of TMT sites

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7012, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Travouillon, T ^a   Els, S G ^b   Riddle, R L ^a   Schock M ^a   Skidmore, A W ^a   Bustos, E ^b   Seguel, J ^b   Walker, D ^b   Vasquez, J ^b   Blum, R ^b   Gillett, P ^a   Gregory, B ^b  

^a TMT Observatory Corp   (United States)

^b CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; ELTs; Site testing

Indexed keywords

ELTS; INTEGRATION TIME; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SITE TESTING; STABILITY PROPERTIES; TEMPORAL STABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALE;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BUILDINGS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; STABILITY;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 66749100103     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.787136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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