The site conditions of the Guo Shou Jing Telescope

作     者：Song Yao Chao Liu Hao-Tong Zhang Li-Cai Deng Heidi Jo Newberg Yue-Yang Zhang Jing Li Nian Liu Xu Zhou Jeffrey L. Carlin Li Chen Norbert Christlieb Shuang Gao Zhan-Wen Han Jin-Liang Hou Hsu-Tai Lee Xiao-Wei Liu Kai-Ke Pan Hong-Chi Wang Yan Xu Fan Yang 

作者机构：Key Lab of Optical Astronomy National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100012 China Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China Department of Physics Applied Physics and Astronomy Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1108th Street Troy NY 12180 USA : School of Physics and Electronic Information China West Normal University Nanchong 637000 China Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai 200030 China Center for Astronomy University of Heidelberg Landesstemwarte K6nigstuhl 12 D-69117Heidelberg Germany Yunnan Astronomical Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming 650011 China Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics Academia Sinica P.O. Box 23-141 Taipei i06 China Department of Astronomy & Kavli Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics Peking UniversityBeijing 100871 China Apache Point Observatory PO Box 59 Sunspot NM 88349 USA Purple Mountain Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing 210008 China 

出 版 物：《Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics》 (天文和天体物理学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第12卷第7期

页      面：772-780页

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学科分类：08[工学] 081601[工学-大地测量学与测量工程] 0816[工学-测绘科学与技术] 0803[工学-光学工程] 

基　　金：partially supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences through grant GJHZ 200812 the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11243003, 10573022,10973015 and 11061120454) the US National Science Foundation, through grant AST-09-37523 

主　　题：telescopes   site testing   surveys 

摘      要：The weather at the Xinglong Observing Station, where the Guo Shou Jing Telescope （GSJT） is located, is strongly affected by the monsoon climate in north- east China. The LAMOST survey strategy is constrained by these weather patterns. We present statistics on observing hours from 2004 to 2007, and the sky brightness, seeing, and sky transparency from 1995 to 2011 at the site. We investigate effects of the site conditions on the survey plan. Operable hours each month show a strong cor- relation with season： on average there are eight operable hours per night available in December, but only one-two hours in July and August. The seeing and the sky trans- parency also vary with season. Although the seeing is worse in windy winters, and the atmospheric extinction is worse in the spring and summer, the site is adequate for the proposed scientific program of the LAMOST survey. With a Monte Carlo simulation using historical data on the site condition, we find that the available observation hours constrain the survey footprint from 22h to 16h in right ascension; the sky brightness allows LAMOST to obtain a limiting magnitude of V = 19.5 mag with S/N= 10.