Weather monitor station and 225 GHz radiometer system installed at Sierra Negra: the Large Millimeter Telescope site
Weather monitor station and 225 GHz radiometer system installed at Sierra Negra: the Large Millimeter Telescope site
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安装在 Sierra Negra 的天气监测站和 225 GHz 辐射计系统：大型毫米望远镜站点
DOI：
10.1117/12.2055005
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发表时间：
2014
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2
通讯作者：
J. Contreras R.
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作者：
D. Ferrusca;J. Contreras R.
大型毫米波望远镜（LMT）是一个50米的碟形天线，设计用于在墨西哥Sierra Negra普埃布拉山顶海拔4600米处进行0.85至4毫米波长范围内的观测。望远镜有一个新的大气监测系统，使技术人员和天文学家能够评估现场的条件，并有足够的信息在安全条件下操作天线，大气数据也有助于安排维护活动和进行科学观测，不透明度数据用于校准天文数据和评估毫米波长的天空质量。在本文中，我们描述了集成的天气大气监测系统和225 GHz辐射计的望远镜周围的设施，也描述了这些系统的硬件集成和软件的方法来保存和处理的数据，然后使其在真实的时间，天文学家和外界通过互联网连接。最后，我们提出了在2013/2014年的雨季和旱季使用这种新设备进行的第一组大气测量和统计数据。
The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) is a 50-m dish antenna designed to observe in the wavelength range of 0.85 to 4 mm at an altitude of 4600 m on the summit of Sierra Negra Puebla, Mexico. The telescope has a new atmospheric monitoring system that allows technical staff and astronomers to evaluate the conditions at the site and have enough information to operate the antenna in safe conditions, atmospheric data is also useful to schedule maintenance activities and conduct scientific observations, opacity data is used to calibrate the astronomical data and evaluate the quality of the sky at millimeter wavelengths. In this paper we describe the integration of a weather atmospheric monitoring system and a 225 GHz radiometer to the facilities around the telescope and also describe the hardware integration of these systems and the software methodology used to save and process the data and then make it available in real time to the astronomers and outside world through an internet connection. Finally we present a first set of atmospheric measurements and statistics taken with this new equipment during the wet and dry seasons of 2013/2014.