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DOI
Socas-Navarro, H.; Beckers, J.; Brandt, P.; Briggs, J.; Brown, T.; Brown, W.; Collados, M.; Denker, C.; Fletcher, S.; Hegwer, S.; Hill, F.; Horst, T.; Komsa, M.; Kuhn, J.; Lecinski, A.; Lin, H.; Oncley, S.; Penn, M.; Rimmele, T.; Streander, K.
Bibliographical reference
The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 117, Issue 837, pp. 1296-1305.
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11
2005
Citations
24
Refereed citations
16
Description
The site survey for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope concluded
recently after more than 2 years of data gathering and analysis. Six
locations, including lake, island, and continental sites, were
thoroughly probed for image quality and sky brightness. The present
paper describes the analysis methodology employed to determine the
height stratification of the atmospheric turbulence. This information is
crucial, because daytime seeing is often very different between the
actual telescope aperture (~30 m) and the ground. Two independent
inversion codes have been developed to simultaneously analyze data from
a scintillometer array and a solar differential image monitor. We show
here the results of applying them to a sample subset of data from 2003
May that was used for testing. Both codes retrieve a similar seeing
stratification through the height range of interest. A quantitative
comparison between our analysis procedure and actual in situ
measurements confirms the validity of the inversions. The sample data
presented in this paper reveal a qualitatively different behavior for
the lake sites (dominated by high-altitude seeing) and the rest
(dominated by near-ground turbulence).