Atmospheric turbulence and the resolution limits of large ground-based telescopes: comment.

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Nov 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993josaa..10.2410t&link_type=abstract

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 10, No. 11, p. 2410 - 2414

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The paper by McKechnie [see Abstr. 56.031.032J is discussed, in which McKechnie tries to explain astronomers' visual descriptions of bright cores in star images by using his own model of atmospheric inhomogeneities, which is different from the conventional turbulent model. In this paper the authors show that the star images presented by McKechnie are consistent with the traditional turbulent model. The McKechnie model of scattering, a single-scale atmosphere with the characteristic scale L0 ≅ 35 cm, contradicts all their experiences with turbulence: both direct in situ measurements of turbulent characteristics and indirect experiments of wave propagation in a turbulent atmosphere.

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