MASS: papers and documents

• Tokovinin A.A. A new method to measure atmospheric seeing. Pis'ma v AZh., 1998, V. 24, P. 768-771 (Astronomy Letters, P. 662-664).
• Tokovinin A. Analysis of single-star profilers (ESO document, VLT-TRE-UNI-17416-008, 24 May 1998) [80K, ps.gz]
• Kornilov V.G., Tokovinin A.A. Measurement of the turbulence in the free atmosphere above Mt. Maidanak. Astron. Zhurn., 2001, V. 45, P. 459-473 (Astron. Rep., V. 45, P. 395-408). [in English: PDF, 470K ]
• Tokovinin A., Kornilov V. Measuring turbulence profile from scintillations of single stars. In: Astronomical Site Evaluation in the visible and Radio Range, Eds. Benkhaldoun Z., Mu~noz-Tu~non C., Vernin J., ASP Conf. Ser., V. 266, p. 104-112, 2002 [146K, ps.gz]
• Tokovinin A. Measurement of seeing and atmospheric time constant by differential scintillations. Appl. Optics, 2002, V. 41, No. 6, p. 957-964 [92K, ps.gz]
• Tokovinin A. Analysis of diffraction effects in MASS (November 2001) [170K, ps.gz]
• Tokovinin A. Profile restoration in MASS: fixed layers (April 2002) [ps.gz, 46K]
• Tokovinin A. From differential image motion to seeing. PASP, 2002, V. 114, P. 1156 [PDF, 179K ]
• Talk at the "Sites-II" meeting (Tucson, July 1-2 2002) [1186K, powerpoint]
• Kornilov, V., Tokovinin A., Vozyakova O., Zaitsev A., Shatsky N., Potanin S., Sarazin M. MASS: a monitor of the vertical turbulence distribution. Proc. SPIE, 2003, V. 4839, P. 837-845 (Waikoloa SPIE Conference, 2002) Paper [ps.gz, 445K ] , scanned SPIE paper [pdf, 917K] , and poster [PowerPoint, 640K ] .
• Tokovinin A., Baumont S., Vasquez J. Statistics of turbulence profile at Cerro Tololo. MNRAS, 2003, V. 340, P. 52-58 [PDF, 456K ] See also astro-ph/0209432
• Tokovinin A. Polychromatic scintillation. JOSA(A), 2003, V. 20 P. 686-689 [PDF, 152K ]
• Tokovinin A., Kornilov V., Shatsky N., Voziakova O. Restoration of turbulence profile from scintillation indices. MNRAS, 2003, V. 343, p. 891-899 [PDF, 419K ]
• Tokovinin A. Testing the restoration in MASS-DIMM (May 16, 2003) [ps.gz, 65K ]
• Kornilov, Victor, MASS-DIMM electronics (seminar at CTIO, Sept. 24, 2003) Power-point, 254K
• Tokovinin A. MASS-DIMM - a turbulence monitor for Adaptive Optics (ESO Workshop, Oct. 13, 2003) Power-point, 964K
• Tokovinin A. SCIDAR-MASS comparison (internal report). PDF
• Tokovinin A. New Instruments to See the "Seeing". Article in NOAO/NSO Newsletter 77, March 2004, pp. 32-34. PDF
• Tokovinin A. MASS response in strong scintillation. Internal report, May 25, 2004. PDF
• Lawrence J.S., Ashley M.C.B., Kenyon S., Storey J.W.V., Tokovinin A., Lloyd J.P., Swain M. High altitude turbulence measurements from Dome C, Antarctica. Proc. SPIE, 2004, V. 5489, paper 84. [PDF, 2.1M ]
• Tokovinin A. Influence of defocus on DIMM. Internal report, CTIO, September 14, 2004. PDF
• Lawrence J.S., Ashley M.C.B., Tokovinin A., Travouillon T. Exceptional astronomical seeing conditions above Dome C in Antarctica. Nature, 2004, V. 431, No. 7006, P. 278-280 [PDF, 462K ]
• Tokovinin A. MASS overshoots: a case study. Internal report, October 1, 2004 PDF, 353K
• Tokovinin A., Kornilov V. Experiments with MASS. Internal report, October 12, 2004 PDF, 211K
• Tokovinin A. MASS under strong scintillation. Internal report, October 22, 2004 PDF, 212K
• Tokovinin A. Planet scintillation as a probe for ground-layer turbulence Internal report, December 8, 2004 PDF, 227K
• Tokovinin A. Replication of MASS segmentators. Internal report, December 26, 2004 PDF, 312K
• Tokovinin A., Vernin J., Ziad A., Chun M. Optical Turbulence profiles at Mauna Kea measured by MASS and Scidar. PASP, 2005, 117, 395-400 [PDF, 499K ]
• Tokovinin A. MASS-DIMM and SODAR at Cerro Pachon (talk at Gemini on May 3, 2005) [PPT, 756K ]
• Tokovinin A., Travouillon T. Model of optical tuebulence profile at Cerro Pachon. MNRAS, 2005, accepted PDF, 358K .
• Tokovinin A., Travouillon T. Models of the ground layer and free atmosphere at some sites. (talk at the "Sites-3" meeting, June 16, 2005) [PPT, 1.47M ]
• Tokovinin A. Matching MASS-DIMM to Meade RX400 telescope. January 24, 2006 [PDF, 228K ]
• Tokovinin A. MASS simulations under strong scintillation. January 27, 2006 [PDF, 119K ]
• Tokovinin A. Testing MASS-DIMM units 16 to 20. January 30, 2006 [PDF, 157K ]
• Tokovinin A. Calculation of the Strehl ratio from 1-dimensional data. Febuary 13, 2006 [PDF, 53K ]
• Tokovinin A. Approximate measurement of the surface-layer turbulence with a simple lunar scintillometer. June 14, 2006 [PDF, 84K ]
• Tokovinin A. Calbration of the MASS time constant measurements. June 22, 2006 [PDF, 150K ]
• Tokovinin A., Bustos E. Single-channel lunar scintillometer. September 11, 2006 [PDF, 120K ]
• Kornilov V. The verification of the MASS spectral response. September 14, 2006 [PDF, 300K ]
• Tokovinin A. A concept of Lunar Scintillometer (LuSci). October 4, 2006 [PDF, 83K ]
• Tokovinin A. Response of DIMM turbulence sensor. December 20, 2006 [PDF, 153K ]
• Tokovinin A. Restoration of turbulence profile from lunar scintillation. January 22, 2007 [PDF, 108K ]
• Tokovinin A. Turbulence profiles from the scintillation of stars, planets, and Moon. Proc. Workshop on astronomical site evalualtion, San Pedro Martir, March 2007. To be published in Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrof. (Conf. Ser.) [PDF, 489K ]
• Tokovinin A., Kornilov V. Accurate seeing measurements with MASS and DIMM. 2007, MNRAS, V. 381, pp. 1179-1189 [PDF, 436K ]
• Kornilov V., Tokovinin A., Shatsky N., Voziakova O., Potatin S., Safonov B. Combined MASS-DIMM instrument for atmospheric turbulence studies. 2007, MNRAS, V. 383, pp. 1268-1278. [PDF, 505K ]
• Tokovinin A. Remote turbulence sensing: present and future. Contribution to the Proceedings of the "Symposium on Seeing" (Kona, Hawaii, March 2007). [PDF, 147K]
  See also 2-page explanations of MASS and DIMM
• Tokovinin A. Random measurement errors in LuSci. February 12, 2008. [PDF, 155K ]
• Els S.G., Schoeck M., Seguel J., Tokovinin A., Kornilov V., Riddle R., Skidmore W., Travouillion T., Vogiatzis K., Blum R.,. Bustos E., Gregory B., Vasquez J., Walker D., Gillett P. Study of the precision of the MASS turbulence profiler employed in the site testing campaign for the Thirty Meter Telescope. 2008, Appl. Opt., submitted [PDF, 150K]
• Kornilov V., Shatsky N., Potanin S., Voziakova O., Safonov B. Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site. A presentation at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute. [PDF, 2.8M ]
• Tokovinin A. Restoration of continuous turbulence profile from lunar scintillation. June 11, 2008. [PDF, 148K ] A code for data processing can be found here
• Rajagopal J., Tokovinin A., Bustos E., Sebag J. LuSci, a lunar scintillometer to study ground layer turbulence. 2008, Proc. SPIE, V. 7013, paper 60 [PDF, 186K]
• Tokovinin A. Checking LuSci profile restoration. February 5, 2009. [PDF, 142K] The new code for data processing can be found here
• Kornilov V., Ilyasov S., Voziakova O., Tillaev Yu., Safonov B., Ibragimov M., Shatsky N., Ehgamberdiev S. Measurement of optical turbulence in free atmosphere above Mt.Maidanak in 2005-2007. Accepted for publication in Astronomy Letters, V.35 (2009). ArXiv:0905.0741
• Tokovinin A. Calibration of the MASS time constant by simulation. July 29, 2009. [PDF, 94K]
• Tokovinin A., Berdja A. LuSci data processing. User manual. December 21, 2009. [PDF, 296K] The CODE4 processing package is here [tar.gz, 9.87M]

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