An instrument for the measurement of the mean square value of atmospheric star scintillation
Abstract
A photoelectric instrument is described, giving directly in digital form the ratio of the mean square value of the current fluctuations (owing only to atmospheric star scintillation) and the square of the mean value of the current (owing to the star signal). This ratio is the measure of the atmospheric scintillation. The instrument was used for atmospheric optical quality measurements in connection with the European project JOSO (Joint Organization for Solar Observations).
- Publication:
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Review of Scientific Instruments
- Pub Date:
- January 1975
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1975RScI...46...15B
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Turbulence;
- Electrophotometers;
- Scintillation Counters;
- Signal Distortion;
- Design Analysis;
- Digital Data;
- Light Emission;
- Photomultiplier Tubes;
- Stellar Radiation;
- Instrumentation and Photography;
- 85.60.Dw;
- 91.90.+p;
- 91.80.+i;
- Photodiodes;
- phototransistors;
- photoresistors;
- Other topics in solid Earth physics