Scintillation noise due to the Earth's turbulent atmosphere can be a dominant noise source
in high-precision astronomical photometry when observing bright targets from the ground …

Optical turbulence greatly impacts the range and quality of astronomical observations.
Advanced knowledge of the expected atmospheric optical turbulence provides important …

The staff at the Maunakea Weather Center (MKWC) has provided daily forecasts of optical
turbulence for the summit of Maunakea for more than 20 yr. Observational measures of …

A prototype of a new SLope Detection And Ranging (SLODAR) instrument for atmospheric
optical turbulence profiling has been developed by the Centre for Advanced Instrumentation …

We describe the implementation of a robotic SLODAR instrument at the Cerro Paranal
observatory. The instrument measures the vertical profile of the optical atmospheric …

Aims. Within the framework of site qualification for the future European large telescope E-
ELT, a campaign of measurements was carried out for ten nights in December 2007 at …

Current projects for large telescopes demand a proper knowledge of atmospheric
turbulence to design efficient adaptive optics systems in order to reach large Strehl ratios …

A characterization of the optical turbulence vertical distribution (C 2 N profiles) and all the
main integrated astroclimatic parameters derived from the C 2 N and the wind speed profiles …

Maunakea is one of the world's primary sites for astronomical observing, with multiple
telescopes operating over submillimeter to optical wavelengths. With its summit higher than …

A simple and inexpensive six-channel array of photodiodes, LuSci, can measure weak
moonlight scintillation produced by optical turbulence within few hundred metres above the …