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The ASM-DIMM Reliability

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Analysis of Reliability and Operation Limits

1999 uptime statistics accounting for target acquisition, weather and technical shutdowns.

The frequency of the seeing updates decreases with increasing wind speed as more and more exposures are invalidated due to wind shake of tower and telescope. The wind operating limit is currently set at 18m/s (1mn average) and 21m/s (maximum)

Efficiency with respect to wind velocity

Efficiency with respect to wind gust


Night by Night ASM-DIMM Seeing Monitoring (Aug-Oct 98)


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