Bibcode
Hill, F.; Collados, M.; Navarro, H.; Beckers, J.; Brandt, P.; Briggs, J.; Brown, T.; Denker, C.; Hegwer, S.; Horst, T.; Komsa, M.; Kuhn, J.; Lin, H.; Oncley, S.; Penn, M.; Rimmele, T.; Soltau, D.; Streander, K.
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American Astronomical Society Meeting 204, #69.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.795
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2004
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Descripción
We present the latest results and current status of the site survey
portion of the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) project. The
ATST will provide high resolution solar data in the visible and IR. The
site is a major factor determining the performance of the telescope. The
most critical site characteristics are the statistics of daytime seeing
quality and sky clarity. These conditions are being measured by a suite
of instruments at three sites (Big Bear, Haleakala, La Palma). These
sites were chosen from a set of six that have been tested starting in
November 2001. The instrumentation includes a solar differential image
motion monitor, an array of scintillometers, a miniature coronagraph, a
dust monitor, and a weather station. The analysis of the data provides
an estimate of the seeing as a function of height near the ground. We
will present the latest results of the analysis of the survey data set.