Bibcode
DOI
Vázquez-Ramió, H.; Vernin, Jean; Muñoz-Tuñón, C.; Sarazin, Marc; Varela, A. M.; Trinquet, Hervé; Delgado, José Miguel; Fuensalida, J. J.; Reyes, M.; Benhida, Abdelmajid; Benkhaldoun, Zouhair; Lambas, Diego García; Hach, Youssef; Lazrek, M.; Lombardi, Gianluca; Navarrete, Julio; Recabarren, Pablo; Renzi, Victor; Sabil, Mohammed; Vrech, Rubén
Referencia bibliográfica
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 124, issue 918, pp.868-884
Fecha de publicación:
8
2012
Número de citas
22
Número de citas referidas
20
Descripción
This is the second article of a series devoted to European Extremely
Large Telescope (E-ELT) site characterization. In this article we
present the main properties of the parameters involved in high angular
resolution observations from the data collected in the site testing
campaign of the E-ELT during the design study (DS) phase. Observations
were made in 2008 and 2009, in the four sites selected to shelter the
future E-ELT (characterized under the ELT-DS contract): Aklim mountain
in Morocco, Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM) in Spain,
Macón range in Argentina, and Cerro Ventarrones in Chile. The
same techniques, instruments, and acquisition procedures were taken on
each site. A multiple aperture scintillation sensor (MASS) and a
differential image motion monitor (DIMM) were installed at each site.
Global statistics of the integrated seeing, the free atmosphere seeing,
the boundary layer seeing, and the isoplanatic angle were studied for
each site, and the results are presented here. In order to estimate
other important parameters, such as the coherence time of the wavefront
and the overall parameter "coherence étendue," additional
information of vertical profiles of the wind speed was needed. Data were
retrieved from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) archive. Ground wind speed was measured by automatic weather
stations (AWS). More aspects of the turbulence parameters, such as their
seasonal trend, their nightly evolution, and their temporal stability,
were also obtained and analyzed.