Giant magellan telescope site evaluation and characterization at las campanas observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7012, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Osip, Joanna E Thomas ^a   Prieto, Gabriel ^a   Johns, Matt ^b   Phillips, Mark M ^b  

^a LAS CAMPANAS OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground layer seeing; Meteorological characteristics; Precipitable water vapor; Seeing; Site characterization; Turbulence profile

Indexed keywords

GROUND LAYER SEEING; METEOROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR; SEEING; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; TURBULENCE PROFILE;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; BUILDINGS; FLASHOVER; OBSERVATORIES; TURBULENCE; WATER VAPOR;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 66749152618     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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