Bibcode
Martinez Pillet, V.; Ruiz Cobo, B.; Vazquez, M.
Bibliographical reference
Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 125, Feb. 1990, p. 211-218. Research supported by CAICYT.
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1990
Citations
15
Refereed citations
15
Description
A new procedure to separate the instrumental and atmospheric
components of stray light is presented. It is based on the dependence
of the aureole's atmospheric component on the air mass and is applied
to measurements taken with the Vacuum Newton Telescope (VNT) at the
Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife). The resulting instrumental part is
independent of the air mass.
The variation of both components with wavelength is also studied. The
instrumental component shows no dependence on wavelength, in contrast
to the atmospheric one which is greater in the blue than in the
red.
It is concluded that observations with air masses larger than two will
probably be strongly affected by stray light.