The Multi Aperture Scintillation sensor (MASS) used in the site selection of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7012, Issue , 2008, Pages

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

^a CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b TMT Observatory Corp   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Site testing; Turbulence profiling

Indexed keywords

ALL-SKY; CLOUD DETECTION; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; INSTRUMENT CALIBRATIONS; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS DATA; MASS SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MULTI-APERTURE SCINTILLATION SENSORS; NET RADIATION; SITE TESTING; THERMAL EMISSIONS; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE; TURBULENCE PROFILERS; TURBULENCE PROFILING; TWO MASS SYSTEMS;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; CLOUDS; INSTRUMENT TESTING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SENSORS; TURBULENCE;

SITE SELECTION;

EID: 66749180504     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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