TY - JOUR
T1 - Data processing and data products from 2017 to 2019 campaign of astronomical site testing at Ali, Daocheng and Muztagh-ata
AU - Zihuang, Cao
AU - Hao, Jin-Xin
AU - Feng, Lu
AU - Jones, Hugh
AU - Li, Jian
AU - Xu, Jing
AU - Liu, Li-Yong
AU - Song, Teng-Fei
AU - Wang, Jian-Feng
AU - Chen, Hua-Lin
AU - Xue, Yan-Jie
AU - Shen, Huang
AU - Zhao, Yong-Heng
N1 - © 2020 National Astronomical Observatories, CAS and IOP Publishing Ltd. This is the accepted manuscript version of an article which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-4527/20/6/82
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - Based on previous site testing and satellite cloud data, Ali, Daocheng and Muztagh-ata have been selected as candidate sites for the Large Optical/Infrared Telescope (LOT) in China. We present the data collection, processing, management and quality analysis for our site testing based on using similar hardware. We analyze meteorological data, seeing, background light, cloud and precipitable water vapor data from 2017 March 10 to 2019 March 10. We also investigated the relative usefulness of our all-sky camera data in comparison to that from the meteorological TERRA satellite data based on a night-by-night comparison of the correlation and consistency between them.We find a 6% discrepancy arising from a wide range of factors.
AB - Based on previous site testing and satellite cloud data, Ali, Daocheng and Muztagh-ata have been selected as candidate sites for the Large Optical/Infrared Telescope (LOT) in China. We present the data collection, processing, management and quality analysis for our site testing based on using similar hardware. We analyze meteorological data, seeing, background light, cloud and precipitable water vapor data from 2017 March 10 to 2019 March 10. We also investigated the relative usefulness of our all-sky camera data in comparison to that from the meteorological TERRA satellite data based on a night-by-night comparison of the correlation and consistency between them.We find a 6% discrepancy arising from a wide range of factors.
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U2 - 10.1088/1674-4527/20/6/82
DO - 10.1088/1674-4527/20/6/82
M3 - Article
VL - 20
JO - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
JF - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
IS - 6
M1 - 082
ER -