Atmosphere Extinction at the ORM on La Palma: A 20 yr Statistical Database Gathered at the Carlsberg Meridian Telescope

@article{GarcaGil2010AtmosphereEA,
  title={Atmosphere Extinction at the ORM on La Palma: A 20 yr Statistical Database Gathered at the Carlsberg Meridian Telescope},
  author={A. Garc{\'i}a-Gil and C. Mu{\~n}oz-Tu{\~n}{\'o}n and A. Varela},
  journal={Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific},
  year={2010},
  volume={122},
  pages={1109-1121}
}
The Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM), in the Canary Islands (Spain), was one of the candidates to host the future European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) and is the site of the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), the largest optical infrared facility to date. Sky transparency is a key parameter as it defines the quality of the photometry to be acquired in the astronomical observations. We present a study of the atmosphere extinction at the ORM, carried out after analysis of a… Expand
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