Bibcode
Rodriguez Hidalgo, I.; Collados, M.; Vazquez, M.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol.254, NO. FEB(I), P. 371, 1992
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1992
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Description
A method is presented to estimate the influence of the atmospheric
turbulence and the telescope on the mean power spectra of the
granulation brightness distribution at positions outside the disk
centre, derived using the determination of Fried's parameter.
The procedure is based on the differential degradation suffered by the
directions perpendicular and parallel to the solar limb; the former one
is more affected because it contains more power at high frequencies, due
to the geometrical foreshortening effect. A certain spectral ratio is
defined, which can be evaluated after the observed power spectra and can
be described directly by a Korff's function for a given value of the
Fried parameter r0. The best fit of the measured attenuation
to the theoretical one is calculated, allowing to obtain the adequate
Modulation Transfer Function to reconstruct the original power spectra.
A test has been performed by evaluating the mentioned ratio after
restored spectra showing that these present the required elongation up
to a resolution of about 0".4.