Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Serie de Conferencias, Vol. 41, Diciembre 2011

Series Editor: Silvia Torres-Peimbert
Associate Editor: William Henney

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Astronomical Site Testing Data in Chile

Valparaíso, Chile, December 1 - 3, 2010
Proceedings Editors: M. Curé, A. Otárola, J. Marín, & M. Sarazin

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
M. Curé, A. Otárola, J. Marín, & M. Sarazin
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH
PARTICIPANTS

Opening Session

• Summary of the Astronomical Site Testing Data in Chile Conference
  A. C. Otárola, M. Curé, J. Marín, & M. Sarazin
• Welcome Remarks and Introduction
  N. Vogt
  

  First Session

• The Climate of northern Chile: Mean state, variability and trends (INVITED)
  R. D. Garreaud
• Using re-analysis model data to analyse climate trends related to the astroclimatology of Paranal and La Silla
  E. Graham, M. Sarazin, & C. Matzler
• Estimation of the Optical Turbulence (Cn2) and Seeing from MM5 data in Paranal/Armazones site
  O. Cuevas
• Measuring and forecasting of PWV above La Silla, APEX and Paranal Observatories
  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
• Advancing the Understanding of Radiative Properties in the Upper Troposphere: The RHUBC Campaign on Cerro Toco
  S. Paine

  Second Session

• Near-Ground optical turbulence measurements at Cerro Las Campanas
  G. Prieto, A. Berdja, & J. E. Thomas-Osip
• How to use Active Optics Shack-Hartmann data to measure the seeing at the focal plane of a telescope
  P. Martinez, J. Kolb, M. Sarazin, & J. Navarrete
• Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Site Merit Function
  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
• The Queue Scheduling Site Selection Merit Function for the ESO Extremely Large Telescope
  J. Melnick & G. Monnet
• Verification of the coherence time produced by the MASS-DIMM turbulence profiler in Chile
  M. Sarazin, O. Cuevas, & J. Navarrete
• Measuring the Night Sky Brightness with the Lightmeter
  A. Müller, G. Wuchterl, & M. Sarazin
• Experimental examination of type of tilt measured by DIMM
  B. S. Safonov

  Poster Session

• PWV forecast validation at ALMA site
  D. Pozo, L. Illanes, M. Caneo, & M. Curé
• A comparison between sounding data and WRF forecasts at APEX site
  M. Caneo, D. Pozo, L. Illanes, & M. Curé
• The Impact of the Altiplanic Winter on ALMA's Observing Conditions at Llano de Chajnantor
  J. R. Cortés
• Validation of the vertical profiles of three meteorological models using radiosondes from Antofagasta, Paranal and Llano de Chajnantor
  L. Cortés & M. Curé
• Site Monitoring at the U.C. Observatory of Santa Martina
  C. Gatica, L. Vanzi, I. Toledo, & G. Lombardi
• All Sky Camera Observations of Cloud and Light Pollution at Thirty Meter Telescope Candidate Sites
  W. Skidmore, R. Riddle, M. Schöck, T. Travouillon, S. Els, D. Walker, & E. Magnier
• Synthetic turbulence profile generation
  A. P. Orfanoz

  Third Session

• Can GFS global forecasts be useful for astronomers?
  J. C. Marín, A. Chacón, & M. Curé
• Results from the LSST site monitoring
  S. G. Els & J. Sebag
• Site Characteristics of the Summit of Cerro Chajnantor at the 5640 m Altitude
  K. 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
• Observing Conditions for Submillimeter Astronomy (INVITED)
  S. J. E. Radford
• Precipitable water vapour over La Silla Paranal Observatory
  F. Kerber and the PWV team
• Possibility of Terahertz Observations at the ALMA site
  S. Matsushita
• Analysis of the vertical profiles of humidity from radiosonde soundings launched from Antofagasta
  A. C. Otárola
• Radiometer development at UdeC and PWV data at Chajnantor
  R. Bustos & N. Nagar

Abstracts of Contributed Papers

Photographs of the conference

Author Index