Where is the surface-layer turbulence?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7733, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Tokovinin, Andrei ^a  

^a CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Site testing

Indexed keywords

GROUND-BASED TELESCOPES; HIGHER RESOLUTION; LOCAL TURBULENCE; PARANAL; SITE-TESTING; SURFACE LAYERS;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; IMAGE QUALITY; TURBULENCE;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 77958125589     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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