Optical Turbulence: Astronomy Meets Meteorology
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| Title: | Optical Turbulence: Astronomy Meets Meteorology |
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| Description: | This book collects most of the talks and poster presentations presented at the'Optical Turbulence — Astronomy meets Meteorology'international conference held on 15-18 September, 2008 at Nymphes Bay, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy. The meeting aimed to deal with one of the major causes of wavefront perturbations limiting the astronomical high-angular-resolution observations from the ground. The uniqueness of this meeting has been the effort to attack this topic in a synergic and multidisciplinary approach promoting constructive discussions between the actors of this science — the astronomers, meteorologists, physicists of the atmosphere and the experts in adaptive optics and interferometry techniques whose main goal is to correct, in real-time, the wavefront perturbations induced by atmospheric turbulence to restore at the telescope foci the best available image quality. |
| Authors: | Elena Masciadri, Marc Sarazin |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Meteorological optics--Congresses, Atmospheric turbulence--Congresses |
| Categories: | SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light, SCIENCE / Scientific Instruments |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This book collects most of the talks and poster presentations presented at the'Optical Turbulence — Astronomy meets Meteorology'international conference held on 15-18 September, 2008 at Nymphes Bay, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy. The meeting aimed to deal with one of the major causes of wavefront perturbations limiting the astronomical high-angular-resolution observations from the ground. The uniqueness of this meeting has been the effort to attack this topic in a synergic and multidisciplinary approach promoting constructive discussions between the actors of this science — the astronomers, meteorologists, physicists of the atmosphere and the experts in adaptive optics and interferometry techniques whose main goal is to correct, in real-time, the wavefront perturbations induced by atmospheric turbulence to restore at the telescope foci the best available image quality. |
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| ISBN: | 9781848164857 9781848164864 |
