Model of optical turbulence profile at Cerro Pachón

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Feb 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006mnras.365.1235t&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 365, Issue 4, pp. 1235-1242.

Physics

Optics

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Atmospheric Effects, Instrumentation: Adaptive Optics, Site Testing

Scientific paper

New measurements of optical turbulence profile at the Cerro Pachón observatory in Chile are analysed jointly with previously published data to model the variations of the intensity and thickness of the ground layer and free atmosphere under a variety of observing conditions. This work is motivated by the need to predict statistically the performance of ground-layer adaptice optics. We find that the ground-layer profile can be represented by a decaying exponent with a scale height of 20-40 m, increasing to 100 m under bad conditions. The zone from 6 to 500 m contributes typically about 61 per cent to the total integral, the latter causing a median seeing of 0.77arcsec. Turbulence integrals in the ground layer and in free atmosphere vary independently of each other, in 50 per cent of cases they deviate by less than 1.8 times from their respective median values. The existence of periods with low turbulence in the free atmosphere and their importance for adaptive optics is stressed.

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