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Introduction to the Discussion on: How to Mitigate the Ground-Layer Seeing Effects at Dome C?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2008

H. Zinnecker ,
N. Epchtein ,
H. Rauer ,
J. Beckers  and
T. Travouillon
J. Beckers
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
T. Travouillon
Affiliation:
TMT Project, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Abstract

At Dome C most of the seeing is located in the lower atmosphere, below 50 meters height. In this introduction we describe ways in which one might mitigate those ground layer seeing effects and thus be limited solely by the ~0.25 arcsec seeing of the so-called “free atmosphere”.

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Research Article
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European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 33: 2nd ARENA Conference: The Astrophysical Science Cases at Dome C , 2008 , pp. 221 - 224
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© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2008

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