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Single layer atmospheric turbulence demonstrated by adaptive optics observations

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Carried with an astronomical adaptive optics (AO) system, this work reports the observational evidences of wave-front deformations dominated by sources of perturbation acting as phase slabs moving at a constant speed in front of the telescope aperture. Consequences for improved adaptive optics compensation are suggested.

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  1. Observatoire de Paris & Université Paris VII-D. Diderot Département de Recherche Spatiale, U.R.A. CNRS 264, F-92195, Meudon Cedex, France

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Gendron, E., Léna, P. Single layer atmospheric turbulence demonstrated by adaptive optics observations. Astrophys Space Sci 239, 221–228 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00645776

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