Published September 20, 2000
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Temporal coherence of individual turbulent patterns in atmospheric seeing
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Abstract
We used a variation of the generalized scidar (scintillation detection and ranging) technique to examine the temporal coherence of turbulent patterns at different altitudes in the atmosphere above Palomar Observatory. This enables us to test the validity of a frozen turbulence hypothesis in the local reference frame of the moving atmosphere. The data set analyzed here contains three turbulent patterns, each at a different altitude, which remain internally coherent over time scales of 0.28 0.41 s. This measurement is significant, because it is made on a 5-m aperture, allowing moving patterns to be tracked over time scales longer than their own lifetimes.
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© 2000 Optical Society of America Received 28 September 1999; revised manuscript received 31 May 2000. We thank Lee Armus for supplying our 8.5 s of observing time, Dan Lang for technical help, and the Palomar staff for accommodating our nonstandard observing habits. This study was supported by Caltech President's Fund PF-404 and National Science Foundation (NSF) grant AST-9618811.Files
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