Vol. 41 (2011): Astronomical Site Testing Data in Chile | Revista Mexicana de Astrofísica y Astronomía Serie de Conferencias

A. C. Otárola, M. Curé, J. Marín, M. Sarazin

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Summary of the Astronomical Site Testing Data in Chile Conference

N. Vogt

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Welcome Remarks and Introduction

R. D. Garreaud

5-11

The Climate of northern Chile: Mean state, variability and trends

E. Graham, M. Sarazin, C. Matzler

12-15

Using re-analysis model data to analyse climate trends related to the astroclimatology of Paranal and La Silla

O. Cuevas

16-19

Estimation of the Optical Turbulence (C_n^2) and Seeing from MM5 data in Paranal/Armazones site

A. Chacón, O. Cuevas, D. Pozo, J. Marín, A. Oyanadel, C. Dougnac, L. Cortes, L. Illanes, M. Caneo, M. Curé, M. Sarazin, F. Kerber, A. Smette, D. Rabanus, R. Querel, G. Tompkins

20-23

Measuring and forecasting of PWV above La Silla, APEX and Paranal Observatories

S. Paine

24-24

Advancing the Understanding of Radiative Properties in the Upper Troposphere: The RHUBC Campaign on Cerro Toco

G. Prieto, A. Berdja, J. E. Thomas-Osip

25-27

Near-Ground optical turbulence measurements at Cerro Las Campanas

P. Martinez, J. Kolb, M. Sarazin, J. Navarrete

28-31

How to use Active Optics Shack-Hartmann data to measure the seeing at the focal plane of a telescope

M. Schöck, J. Nelson, S. Els, P. Gillett, A. Otárola, R. Riddle, W. Skidmore, T. Travouillon, R. Blum, G. Chanan, D. De Young, S. G. Djorgovski, D. Salmon, E. Steinbring, A. Walker

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Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Site Merit Function

J. Melnick, G. Monnet

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The Queue Scheduling Site Selection Merit Function for the ESO Extremely Large Telescope

M. Sarazin, O. Cuevas, J. Navarrete

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Verification of the coherence time produced by the MASS-DIMM turbulence profiler in Chile

A. Müller, G. Wuchterl, M. Sarazin

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Measuring the Night Sky Brightness with the Lightmeter

B. S. Safonov

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Experimental examination of type of tilt measured by DIMM

D. Pozo, L. Illanes, M. Caneo, M. Curé

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PWV forecast validation at ALMA site

M. Caneo, D. Pozo, L. Illanes, M. Curé

59-62

A comparison between sounding data and WRF forecasts at APEX site

J. R. Cortés

63-63

The Impact of the Altiplanic Winter on ALMA's Observing Conditions at Llano de Chajnantor

L. Cortés, M. Curé

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Validation of the vertical profiles of three meteorological models using radiosondes from Antofagasta, Paranal and Llano de Chajnantor

C. Gatica, L. Vanzi, I. Toledo, G. Lombardi

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Site Monitoring at the U.C. Observatory of Santa Martina

W. Skidmore, R. Riddle, M. Schöck, T. Travouillon, S. Els, D. Walker, E. Magnier

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All Sky Camera Observations of Cloud and Light Pollution at Thirty Meter Telescope Candidate Sites

A. P. Orfanoz

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Synthetic turbulence profile generation

J. C. Marín, A. Chacón, M. Curé

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Can GFS global forecasts be useful for astronomers?

S. G. Els, J. Sebag

79-82

Results from the LSST site monitoring

K. M. Motohara, T. Aoki, K. Asano, M. Doi, T. Handa, K. Kawara, D. Kato, N. Kato, K. Kohno, M. Konishi, S. Koshida, T. Minezaki, T. Miyata, T. Nakamura, S. Sako, T. Soyano, T. Tanabe, M. Tanaka, K. Tateuchi, K. Tarusawa, M. Uchiyama, Y. Yoshii, L. Bronfman, M. T. Ruiz, M. Hamuy

83-86

Site Characteristics of the Summit of Cerro Chajnantor at the 5640 m Altitude

S. J. E. Radford

87-90

Observing Conditions for Submillimeter Astronomy

F. Kerber

91-94

Precipitable water vapour over La Silla Paranal Observatory

S. Matsushita

95-98

Possibility of Terahertz Observations at the ALMA site

A. C. Otárola