Statistics of the sodium layer parameters at low geographic latitude and its impact on adaptive-optics sodium laser guide star characteristics

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 511, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Moussaoui, N ^a,b   Clemesha, B R ^c   Holzlohner R ^a   Simonich, D M ^c   Bonaccini Calia, D ^a   Hackenberg, W ^a   Batista, P P ^c  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atmospheric effects; Instrumentation: adaptive optics

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; AVERAGE VALUES; COLUMN ABUNDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION: ADAPTIVE OPTICS; LASER GUIDE STAR; LAYER THICKNESS; MESOSPHERIC SODIUM LAYER; PARANAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SODIUM LAYER;

SODIUM;

EID: 77950436249     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913281     Document Type: Article

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