Seeing environment at a 5640m altitude of co. chajnantor in northern chile

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7012, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Motohara, Kentaro ^a   Aoki, Tsutomu ^a   Sako, Shigeyuki ^a   Soyano, Takao ^a   Doi, Mamoru ^a   Tanak, Masuo ^a   Tanabe, Toshihiko ^a   Handa, Toshihiro ^a   Mitani, Natsuko ^a   Minezaki, Takeo ^a   Miyata, Takashi ^a   Kawara, Kimiaki ^a   Kohno, Kotaro ^a   Tarusawa, Ken'ichi ^a   Yoshii, Yuzuru ^a   Bronfman, Leonard ^b   Ruiz, Maria Teresa ^b   Uraguchi, Fumihiro ^c   Takato, Naruhisa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atacama; Co. Chajnantor; DIMM; Seeing; Site evaluation

Indexed keywords

ATACAMA; CO. CHAJNANTOR; DIMM; SEEING; SITE EVALUATION;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; ASTRONOMY; EARTH (PLANET); OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 66749149400     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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