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Bolometric Night Sky Temperature and Subcooling of Telescope Structures
Ronald Holzlöhner, Stefan Kimeswenger, Wolfgang Kausch +1
Context. The term sky temperature is used in the literature in different contexts which often leads to confusion. In this work, we study , the effective bolometric sk…
Scattered moonlight observations with X-Shooter: Implications for the aerosol properties at Cerro Paranal and the ESO sky background model
Amy M Jones, Stefan Noll, Wolfgang Kausch +3
Estimating the sky background is critical for ground-based astronomical research. In the optical, scattered moonlight dominates the sky background, when the moon is above the horiz…
Study of the atmospheric conditions at Cerro Armazones using astronomical data
Masha Lakicevic, Stefan Kimeswenger, Stefan Noll +3
Aims: We studied the precipitable water vapour (PWV) content near Cerro Armazones and discuss the potential use of our technique of modelling the telluric absorbtion lines for the…
Molecfit: A general tool for telluric absorption correction II. Quantitative evaluation on ESO-VLT X-Shooter spectra
W. Kausch, S. Noll. A. Smette, S. Kimeswenger +6
Context: Absorption by molecules in the Earth's atmosphere strongly affects ground-based astronomical observations. The resulting absorption line strength and shape depend on the h…
Molecfit: A general tool for telluric absorption correction. I. Method and application to ESO instruments
A. Smette, H. Sana, S. Noll +10
Context: The interaction of the light from astronomical objects with the constituents of the Earth's atmosphere leads to the formation of telluric absorption lines in ground-based…
Skycorr: A general tool for spectroscopic sky subtraction
S. Noll, W. Kausch, S. Kimeswenger +5
Airglow emission lines, which dominate the optical-to-near-IR sky radiation, show strong, line-dependent variability on various time scales. Therefore, the subtraction of the sky b…