Citation
J. Davis et Wj. Tango, MEASUREMENT OF THE ATMOSPHERIC COHERENCE TIME, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 108(723), 1996, pp. 456-458
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
ISSN journal
00046280
→ ACNP
Volume
108
Issue
723
Year of publication
1996
Pages
456 - 458
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-6280(1996)108:723<456:MOTACT>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Measurements of fringe visibility made with a stellar interferometer a
re significantly affected by wave-front distortions caused by turbulen
ce in the Earth's atmosphere. In this paper the temporal coherence of
the wave-front distortion and the effect of the observational sampling
time on fringe visibility measurements are discussed. A method for me
asuring the atmospheric coherence time, which is now in routine use in
the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI), is described and
some observational results are presented.