Optical Turbulence: Astronomy Meets Meteorology - Proceedings of the Optical Turbulence Characterization for Astronomical Applications

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.

Author: Elena Masciadri

Publisher: Imperial College Press

Publication Date: Sep 15, 2009

Number of Pages: 416 pages

Binding: Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10: 1848164858

ISBN-13: 9781848164857