Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jul 2000
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Proc. SPIE Vol. 4006, p. 963-973, Interferometry in Optical Astronomy, Pierre J. Lena; Andreas Quirrenbach; Eds.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
The Generalized Seeing Monitor (GSM) has undertaken a campaign of measurement of the optical turbulent parameters: the Fried's parameter, the outer scale (L0) and the isoplanatic patch, at Paranal, the site of the VLT, in December 1998. The principle aim of this mission was to measure L0 values at Paranal. In a first part, we present the GSM, the results of the mission and particularly the statistics of L0. In a second part, we emphasize the effect of L0 on the optical path difference (OPD) values for the co-phasing of an interferometer. We derive the exact formulation of the OPD for the Von Karman model and we give the expected OPD at Paranal with L0 values measured by the GSM. We give also the expression of the residual OPD at the output of a fringe tracker system as a function of L0, of the exposure time of the fringe sensor and of the frequency of the closed-loop of the system.
Borgnino Julien
Conan Rodolphe
Martin Francois
Tokovinin Andrei A.
Ziad Aziz
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