Bibcode
Lombardi, G.; Sarazin, M.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 455, Issue 3, p.2377-2386
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2016
Citations
8
Refereed citations
6
Description
Recent studies on the comparison between the Multi Aperture
Scintillation Sensor (MASS) and Generalized Scintillation Detection and
Ranging (G-SCIDAR) profiler techniques have suggested significant
discrepancies between the results delivered by the two instruments. MASS
has been largely used in the recent site testing campaigns for the
future next generation giant telescopes [i.e. the European Extremely
Large Telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and the Giant Magellan
Telescope (GMT)] and is still used to monitor the conditions of
world-class astronomical sites, as well as to deliver free atmosphere
turbulence profiles to feed Adaptive Optics performance simulations. In
this paper, we explore a different approach in the comparison between
MASS and Generalized SCIDAR techniques with respect to previous studies,
in order to provide a method for the use of the MASS data bases
accumulated at European Southern Obseratory Paranal Observatory in
Adaptive Optics simulations.