High-resolution mesospheric sodium observations for extremely large telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7736, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Pfrommer, Thomas ^a   Hickson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

AO; E ELT; LIDAR; TMT

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; AO; DENSITY PROFILE; DENSITY STRUCTURES; E-ELT; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; GROUND BASED; HIGH RESOLUTION; LARGE APERTURE; LASER GUIDE STAR; LIDAR; LIDAR SYSTEMS; MESOSPHERIC SODIUM; TELESCOPE APERTURE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE; TMT; WAVEFRONT ERRORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; OPTICAL RADAR; SODIUM;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 77957845408     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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