Thirty Meter Telescope site testing VI: turbulence profiles

Author:: Els, Sebastian, Travouillon, Tony, Schock, Matthias, Riddle, Reed, And 4 co-authors
Title:: Thirty Meter Telescope site testing VI: turbulence profiles
Periodical:: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Pacific
Year:: 2009
Volume:: 121
Pages:: 527-543
Subject:: Site surveys Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Mauna Kea
Summary:: The vertical distribution of optical turbulence profiles have been studied with MASS-DIMM for the five candidate sites. The two northern hemisphere sites have weaker turbulence at altitude aove 500 m, with the weakest turbulence at 16km for Mauna Kea 13N.
Label:: Mauna Kea - Astronomy
URL:: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009PASP..121..527E
Date:: May 2009
Collection:: Periodicals