Extinction and Sky Brightness at Two Solar Observatories

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Mar 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004soph..220..107p&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, Volume 220, Issue 1, pp.107-120

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The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope site survey Sky Brightness Monitor simultaneously images the solar disk and the sky to about 8 solar radii in four wavelengths at 450, 530, 890 and 940 nm. One day of data from Mees Solar Observatory on Haleakala and from the National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak (Sunspot, New Mexico) are analyzed. Both sites show strong Rayleigh extinction, but while Haleakala shows a larger aerosol component, Sunspot shows a large variation in the aerosol component. Overall the Haleakala extinction varies as λ-2 whereas the Sunspot extinction changes from about λ-3.5 to about λ-2, suggesting an increasing aerosol component during the day. Water vapor absorption measurements from both sites are similar, though Sunspot shows larger time variations than Haleakala. The instrument-corrected sky brightness from both sites show comparable values, and again the Sunspot data show more variations. The sky brightness values show a radial dependence of sky brightness of r -0.1 at Haleakala, but a dependence of r -1.0 at Sunspot. The wavelength variation of the sky brightness at Haleakala is relatively constant at λ-1.5 but varies at Sunspot from λ-1.5 to λ-0.1 again suggesting an increasing aerosol contribution during the day at Sunspot. Finally, dust measurements near the ground are compared with the extinction wavelength exponent for data taken at Haleakala on 24 Feb. 2003. The measurements suggest more large dust particles are present near the ground than averaged over the whole air column.

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