First statistical data on wavefront outer scale at La Silla observatory from the GSM instrument
Por:
Martin F., Tokovinin A., Ziad A., Conan R., Borgnino J., Avila R., Agabi A., Sarazin M.
Publicada:
1 ene 1998
Resumen:
Results of the first monitoring of the wavefront outer scale ?0 during 16 nights at La Silla, Chile, are presented. This parameter is of importance for high angular resolution observing techniques like adaptive optics and optical interferometry. It was measured with the Grating Scale Monitor (GSM) instrument which is based on the analysis of the spatial covariance of angle of arrival fluctuations simultaneously detected at several points on the wavefront. The outer scale distribution is found to be log-normal, with median value of 24m and rms scatter of ?0 of ±0.22. Short-duration bursts of ?0 are noted. During 1 hour the ?0 and seeing were simultaneously measured with the ADONIS adaptive optics system at the 3.6 m telescope, and a good agreement with our data was noted. Our measurements of the seeing were found to agree with the ESO DIMM seeing data. Effective wavefront velocity was also found in order to estimate the adaptive optics time constant.
Filiaciones:
Martin F.:
U.M.R. Astrophysique N6525, C.N.R.S., Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, F-06108 Nice Cedex 2, France
Tokovinin A.:
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetsky prosp., 13, 119899 Moscow, Russian Federation
Ziad A.:
U.M.R. Astrophysique N6525, C.N.R.S., Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, F-06108 Nice Cedex 2, France
Conan R.:
U.M.R. Astrophysique N6525, C.N.R.S., Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, F-06108 Nice Cedex 2, France
Borgnino J.:
U.M.R. Astrophysique N6525, C.N.R.S., Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, F-06108 Nice Cedex 2, France
Avila R.:
U.M.R. Astrophysique N6525, C.N.R.S., Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, F-06108 Nice Cedex 2, France
Agabi A.:
U.M.R. Astrophysique N6525, C.N.R.S., Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, F-06108 Nice Cedex 2, France
Sarazin M.:
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany
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