Bibcode
Dali Ali, W.; Ziad, A.; Berdja, A.; Maire, J.; Borgnino, J.; Sarazin, M.; Lombardi, G.; Navarrete, J.; Vazquez-Ramió, H.; Reyes, M.; Delgado, J. M.; Fuensalida, J. J.; Tokovinin, A.; Bustos, E.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 524, id.A73
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2010
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Description
Aims: Within the framework of site qualification for the future
European large telescope E-ELT, a campaign of measurements was carried
out for ten nights in December 2007 at Paranal using six independent
instruments. Methods: To characterize the optical turbulence, two
techniques were used: the statistical analysis of the fluctuations of
the angle of arrival and the scintillation of the observed objects which
are, in this case, a single star for DIMM, GSM, and MASS, a double star
for Cute-SCIDAR, and Moon limb for MOSP and LuSci. Results: The
optical parameters measured in this campaign and presented here are the
seeing, the isoplanatic angle, the coherence time, and the outer scale.
We obtain a good agreement with the value measured in previous
campaigns. We also extracted the vertical profile of the turbulence
given by Cn2(h), and the profiles of the outer
scale for the first time at Paranal. A comparison of the different
results that we present here allows the determination of the energy
distribution in the free atmosphere, on the ground layer as well as in
the first meters above ground. This reveals a significant contribution
of the surface layer to the degradation of the global seeing.