Data processing and data products from 2017 to 2019 campaign of astronomical site testing at Ali, Daocheng and Muztagh-ata

Autor: Yongqiang Yao, Yunfei Xu, Zheng Wang, Hong-Shuai Wang, Zhaoxiang Qi, Chun-Hai Bai, Jian-Feng Wang, Jin-Ming Bai, Hua-Lin Chen, Yong-Heng Zhao, Jianrong Shi, Zhi-Gang Hou, Xia Wang, Yan-Jie Xue, Yun-Ying Jiang, Hugh R. A. Jones, Dongwei Fan, Yuan Tian, Zihuang Cao, Xu Yang, Huang Shen, Xuan Zhang, Jin-Xin Hao, Jian-Ping Xiong, Xi Zhang, Jin-Liang Hou, Si-Cheng Yu, Li-Yong Liu, Yihan Tao, Jian Li, Ali Esamdin, Zeng Xianqun, Tai-Sheng Yan, Jia Yin, Jian-Feng Tian, Xu Zhou, Shilong Liao, Zhi-Xia Shen, Changhua Li, Chong Pei, Ji Yang, Jing Xu, Lu Ma, Yu Liu, Peng Wei, Guo-Jie Feng, Lu Feng, Jun-Bo Zhang, Zhi-Song Cao, Guang-Xin Pu, Teng-Fei Song
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 20:082
ISSN: 1674-4527
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4527/20/6/82
Popis: 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.
Databáze: OpenAIRE