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Title: Development of a Lunar Scintillometer as part of the national large optical telescope site survey
Authors: Surendran, A
Parihar, P. S
Banyal, R. K
Anusha Kalyaan
Keywords: Site survey
Atmospheric turbulence
Ground-layer seeing
Issue Date: Mar-2018
Publisher: Springer
Citation: Experimental Astronomy, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 57-79
Abstract: Ground layer turbulence is a very important site characterization parameter used to assess the quality of an astronomical site. The Lunar Scintillometer is a simple and effective site-testing device for measuring the ground layer turbulence. It consists of a linear array of photodiodes which are sensitive to the slight variations in the moon’s brightness due to scintillation by the lower layers of the Earth’s atmosphere. The covariance of intensity values between the non-redundant photodiode baselines can be used to measure the turbulence profile from the ground up to a height determined by the furthest pair of detectors. The six channel lunar scintillometer that has been developed at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics is based closely on an instrument built by the team led by Andrei Tokovinin of Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory (CTIO), Chile (Tokovinin et al., Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 404(3), 1186–1196 2010). We have fabricated the instrument based on the existing electronic design, and have worked on the noise analysis, an EMI (Electromagnetic Induction) resistant PCB design and the software pipeline for analyzing the data from the same. The results from the instrument’s multi-year campaign at Mount Saraswati, Hanle is also presented.
Description: Restricted Access © Springer The original publication is available at springerlink.com https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-017-9567-9
URI: http://prints.iiap.res.in/handle/2248/7048
ISSN: 1572-9508
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