CONTRIBUTION TO THE ASTRONOMICAL SITES STUDY BY MODELING AND in situ EXPERIMENTATION : APPLICATION TO THE SITES OF LA SILLA AND DOME C FOR FUTURE GIANT TELESCOPES

• Main Author: Sadibekova, Tatiana
• Other Authors: Laboratoire Universitaire d'Astrophysique de Nice (LUAN), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Eric Fossat et Jean Vernin([e-mail]; [e-mail])
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2007
• Subjects: site characterization; atmospheric turbulence; turbulence profiles; adaptive optics parameters; charactérisation de site pour l'astronomie; turbulence atmosphérique; profils de turbulence; paramètres de l'optique adaptative; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Géants; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://theses.hal.science/tel-00271689; https://theses.hal.science/tel-00271689/document; https://theses.hal.science/tel-00271689/file/these_Sadibekova.pdf

This thesis was undertaken within the framework of the E-ELT project (European Extremely Large Telescope) where the site characterization for the future large telescopes is the paramount goal. The very important factor for astronomical observations is the atmospheric turbulence. Several techniques e...