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Fried parameter: a standalone construct

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Optics

the diameter over which atmospheric turbulence keeps the optical wavefront coherent, setting the effective resolution of ground-based telescopes.

In optics, Fried parameter refers to the diameter over which atmospheric turbulence keeps the optical wavefront coherent, setting the effective resolution of ground-based telescopes. This meaning comes from Fried (1966) in Journal of the Optical Society of America.[1]

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References

Fried, D. L. (1966). Optical Resolution Through a Randomly Inhomogeneous Medium for Very Long and Very Short Exposures. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 56(10), 1372. https://doi.org/10.1364/josa.56.001372

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