• DocumentCode
    470860
  • Title

    The Improvement of the Quality of Images Observed by the Turbulent Earth Atmosphere

  • Author

    Pakhomov, A.A. ; Potapov, A.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Radio Eng. & Electron., Russian Acad. of Sci., Moscow, Russia
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    11-16 Nov. 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    One of the important problems of optical astronomy is the improvement of quality of images of celestial objects when observed by large ground-based telescopes. The turbulent Earth atmosphere is known to limit the resolution of the observed. On average, the resolution of recorded images is one angular second, while the diffractional - limited resolution of the telescope is better by about an order of magnitude. In present time, three main methods to deal with turbulence problem are known: the Liberia method, the Knox- Thompson method and a generalization of closure phase´s method, the method of triple correlation.
  • Keywords
    astronomical telescopes; astronomy; celestial mechanics; geophysical signal processing; image processing; terrestrial atmosphere; Knox-Thompson method; Liberia method; celestial objects; closure phase method; image quality; large ground-based telescopes; optical astronomy; turbulent Earth atmosphere; correlation method; image processing; iterative algorithm; optical resolution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation, 2007. EuCAP 2007. The Second European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Edinburgh
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-86341-842-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4458559