Astrophysical: Atmospheric effects

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    (1) The search for starlight reflected from hot Jupiters (2) Distribución espacial de las poblaciones estelares y del medio interestelar en las galaxias HII
    (1) The search for starlight reflected from hot Jupiters. Dr. Florian Rodler To date, more than 300 extrasolar planets have been found, and their atmospheres...
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    Adaptive optics parameters connection to wind speed at the Teide Observatory
    Current projects for large telescopes demand a proper knowledge of atmospheric turbulence to design efficient adaptive optics systems in order to reach large...
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    Adaptive optics parameters connection to wind speed at the Teide Observatory: corrigendum
    García-Lorenzo et al. presented a complete study of atmospheric parameters relevant for adaptive optics in relation to wind speed at the Teide Observatory...
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    Astronomical site selection: on the use of satellite data for aerosol content monitoring
    The main goal of this work is to analyse new approaches to the study of the properties of astronomical sites. In particular, satellite data measuring aerosols...
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    Astronomical Site's Characterization in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes: an overview of atmospheric turbulence monitoring for Adaptive Optics performance simulations
    In the past years, intensive Site Characterization campaigns have been performed to chose the sites for the future giant ELTs. Various atmospheric turbulence...
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    Atmospheric and seeing forecast: WRF model validation with in situ measurements at ORM
    We present a comparison between in situ measurements and forecasted data at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos. Forecasting is obtained with the...
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    Atmospheric Extinction Coefficients in the Ic Band for Several Major International Observatories: Results from the BiSON Telescopes, 1984-2016
    Over 30 years of solar data have been acquired by the Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON), an international network of telescopes used to study...
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    Atmospheric optical turbulence at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory: data base and recalibration of the generalized SCIDAR data
    We present the largest data base so far of atmospheric optical turbulence profiles [197 035 individual C2N(h)] for an astronomical site, the Roque de los...
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    Atmospheric scintillation noise in ground-based exoplanet photometry
    Atmospheric scintillation caused by optical turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere can be the dominant source of noise in ground-based photometric observations of...