Results from the GMT ground-layer experiment at the Magellan Telescopes

A. Athey; S. Shectman; M. Phillips; J. Thomas-Osip

doi:10.1117/12.672276

27 June 2006 Results from the GMT ground-layer experiment at the Magellan Telescopes

A. Athey, S. Shectman, M. Phillips, J. Thomas-Osip

Proceedings Volume 6272, Advances in Adaptive Optics II; 627217 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672276
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

Abstract

We present results from our two year study of ground-layer turbulence as seen through the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory. The experiment consists of multiple, moderate resolution, Shack- Hartmann wavefront sensors deployed over a large 16 arcminute field. Over the two years of the experiment, the ground-layer turbulence has been sampled on eleven nights in a variety of seeing and wind conditions. On most nights the ground-layer turbulence contributes 10% to the total visible-band seeing, although a few nights exhibit ground-layer contributions up to 30%. We present the ground-layer turbulence on the sampled nights as well as a demonstration of its strength as a function of field size. This information is combined with data from a MASS-DIMM seeing monitor adjacent to the Magellan Telescopes to infer the annual ground-layer contribution to seeing at Las Campanas.

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A. Athey, S. Shectman, M. Phillips, and J. Thomas-Osip "Results from the GMT ground-layer experiment at the Magellan Telescopes", Proc. SPIE 6272, Advances in Adaptive Optics II, 627217 (27 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672276

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