Bibcode
Hill, F.; Collados, M.
Bibliographical reference
American Astronomical Society, SPD meeting #34, #20.20; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 35, p.848
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2003
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Description
One of the instruments developed for the Advanced Technology Solar
Telescope (ATST) site survey is a non-redundant array of six
scintillometers known as a ShaBaR (SHAdow BAnd Ranging) system,
developed by J. Beckers. The ShaBaR provides an estimate of
Cn2(h), the turbulence structure function, in the
Earth's atmosphere. We can use the estimate of
Cn2(h) to infer the value of r0, the
Fried parameter, at any height above the ground up to the maximum range
of the ShaBaR. In this poster, we present two methods of extracting the
estimates by 1) inverting the data via a kernel function derived from
the theory of atmospheric turbulence, and 2) assuming a modified
Hufnagel-Valley model of Cn2(h). We also show a
series of simulations that has been produced and used to test the
accuracy and precision of the methods.