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Progress of site survey for large solar telescopes in western China

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Author	Liu, Yu Song, Tengfei Zhang, Xuefei Liu, Shunqing Zhao, Mingyu Tian, Zhanjun Miao, Yuhu Li, Hongbo Huang, Jing Su, Baoyu Lu, Yongyin Li, Xiaobo Song, Qiwu
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Excellent sites are necessary for developing and installing ground-based large telescopes. For very-high-resolution solar observations, it had been unclear whether there exist good candidate sites in the west areas in China, including the Tibetan Plateau and the Pamirs Plateau. The project of solar site survey for the next-generation large solar telescopes, i.e., the Chinese Giant Solar Telescope (CGST) and the large coronagraph, has been launched since 2011. Based on the close collaboration among Chinese solar society and the scientists from NSO, HAO and other institutes, we have successfully developed the standard instruments for solar site survey and applied them to more than 50 different sites distributed in Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Ningxia provinces. We have built two long-term monitoring sites in Tibet and the large Shangri-La to take systematic site data. Clear evidence, including the key parameters of seeing factor, sky brightness and water vapor content, has indicated that a few potential sites in the large Tibetan areas should obtain the excellent astronomical conditions for our purpose to develop CGST and large coronagraph. We introduce the fresh site survey results in this report.
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Ending Page	449
Page Count	3
Starting Page	447
ISSN	17439213
e-ISSN	17439221
DOI	10.1017/s1743921316000375
Journal	Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Issue Number	S320
Volume Number	11
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2015-08-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Astronomy and Astrophysics Site Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Astronomy and Astrophysics Space and Planetary Science

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