Site selection for the European ELT

Casiana Munoz-Tunon; Jean Vernin; Marc S. Sarazin

doi:10.1117/12.566320

7 July 2004 Site selection for the European ELT

Casiana Munoz-Tunon, Jean Vernin, Marc S. Sarazin

Proceedings Volume 5382, Second Backaskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.566320
Event: Second Backaskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, 2003, Backaskog, Sweden

Abstract

The site selection for the future large European telescope is a key issue, which will be addressed within the Euorpean proposal to be submitted to be funded by the EECC within the ELT design studies proposal. The organization, working scheme and baseline frameworks have been discussed and planned and are summarized here. For the definition of the working package (the WP 12000 of the proposal) important use have been done of all efforts been carried out during the last decade in the definition of techniques and tools reliable for the study of the atmosphere over observing sites. Also important is the relevance that the studies of the atmosphere have acquired, becoming key projects for most important astronomical sites. Therefore we have also taken advantage of the number of data already available which have naturally defined a ranking among the known places, which have also been taken as a base line for pre-selecting the candidate sites.

Citation Download Citation

Casiana Munoz-Tunon, Jean Vernin, and Marc S. Sarazin "Site selection for the European ELT", Proc. SPIE 5382, Second Backaskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, (7 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.566320

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE

INSTITUTIONAL
Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.

SELECT YOUR INSTITUTION

PERSONAL
Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.

PERSONAL SIGN IN

No SPIE Account? Create one

PURCHASE THIS CONTENT

SUBSCRIBE TO DIGITAL LIBRARY

50 downloads per 1-year subscription

Members: $195

Non-members: $335 ADD TO CART

25 downloads per 1 - year subscription

Members: $145

Non-members: $250 ADD TO CART

PURCHASE SINGLE ARTICLE

Includes PDF, HTML & Video, when available