Published November 11, 2005
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Book Section - Chapter
Unique Antarctic Atmosphere: Implications for Adaptive Optics
Abstract
The turbulence structure of the atmosphere is the primary limitation to adaptive optics system performance on extremely large telescopes — driving current world-wide site testing campaigns. The potential for adaptive optics correction on extremely large telescopes located at Dome C station on the Antarctic plateau is investigated here. Due to the unique atmospheric characteristics of this site it is found that a natural guide star adaptive optics system with a single deformable mirror should outperform a multi-conjugate multi-laser guide star system at a mid-latitude site.
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© 2005 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. First Online 11 November 2005.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 102018
- DOI
- 10.1007/10828557_19
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20200320-084811715
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- Series Name
- ESO Astrophysics Symposia