2013/07/18 by Irene Puerto-Giménez, Markus Gaug, Puerto-Giménez, Irene +13
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1307.4989
In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), ID0609, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
arxiv created 2013/07/18 · arxiv updated 2019/08/14
The Spanish partners of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) have selected a candidate site for the Northern installation of CTA, at 3 km from the Observatorio del Teide (OT), in the Canary Island of Tenerife. As the OT is a very well-characterized astronomical site. We focus here on differences between the publicly accessible measurements from the OT observatory and those obtained with instruments deployed at the candidate site. We find that the winds are generally softer at the candidate site, and the level of background light comparable to the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM) at La Palma in the B-band, while it is only slightly higher in the V-band.