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Title:
Stability of the Submillimeter Brightness of the Atmosphere above Mauna Kea, Chajnantor, and the South Pole
Authors:
Peterson, J. B.; Radford, S. J. E.; Ade, P. A. R.; Chamberlin, R. A.; O'Kelly, M. J.; Peterson, K. M.; Schartman, E.
Affiliation:
AA(Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; .), AB(National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 949 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721-0665 .), AC(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, CF2 3YB Cardiff, UK.), AD(California Institute of Technology, Submillimeter Observatory, 11 Nowello Street, Hilo, HI 96720.), AE(Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; .; Current address: Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.), AF(Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; .), AG(Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; .; National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 949 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721-0665 .; Current address: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.)
Publication:
The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 115, Issue 805, pp. 383-388. (PASP Homepage)
Publication Date:
03/2003
Origin:
UCP
PASP Keywords:
Atmospheric Effects, Earth, Site Testing
DOI:
10.1086/368101
Bibliographic Code:
2003PASP..115..383P

Abstract

The summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the area near Cerro Chajnantor in Chile, and the South Pole are sites of large millimeter- or submillimeter-wavelength telescopes. We have placed 860 GHz sky brightness monitors at all three sites and present a comparative study of the measured submillimeter brightness due to atmospheric thermal emission. We report the stability of that quantity at each site.
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