Balloons over the La Silla Paranal Observatory

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Sep 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010msngr.141....9k&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, vol. 141, p. 9-13

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Precipitable water vapour (PWV) in the atmosphere is one of several key properties required to characterise overall quality of an astronomical site for observations at infrared wavelengths. Through analysis of archival data and by mounting a series of dedicated PWV measurement campaigns, we achieved our goal of establishing the Paranal Observatory as a reference site for evaluation of locations for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) project. For the first time in an astronomical study, all measurement methods have been successfully validated with respect to balloon-borne radiosondes, the accepted standard in atmospheric research.

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