Status of the Thirty Meter Telescope site selection program

Matthias Schöck; Sebastian Els; Reed Riddle; Warren Skidmore; Tony Travouillon; Robert Blum; Edison Bustos; Paul Gillett; Brooke Gregory; Jerry Nelson; Angel Otarola; Juan Seguel; Joselino Vasquez; Konstantinos Vogiatzis; David Walker; Lianqi Wang

doi:10.1117/12.789704

10 July 2008 Status of the Thirty Meter Telescope site selection program

Matthias Schöck, Sebastian Els, Reed Riddle, Warren Skidmore, Tony Travouillon, Robert Blum, Edison Bustos, Paul Gillett, Brooke Gregory, Jerry Nelson, Angel Otarola, Juan Seguel, Joselino Vasquez, Konstantinos Vogiatzis, David Walker, Lianqi Wang

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Proceedings Volume 7012, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II; 70121X (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789704
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project has been collecting data on five candidate sites since 2003. This paper describes the site testing portion of the TMT site selection program and the process and standards employed by it. This includes descriptions of the candidate sites, the process by which they were identified, the site characterization instrument suite and its calibration and the available results, which will be published shortly.

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Matthias Schöck, Sebastian Els, Reed Riddle, Warren Skidmore, Tony Travouillon, Robert Blum, Edison Bustos, Paul Gillett, Brooke Gregory, Jerry Nelson, Angel Otarola, Juan Seguel, Joselino Vasquez, Konstantinos Vogiatzis, David Walker, and Lianqi Wang "Status of the Thirty Meter Telescope site selection program", Proc. SPIE 7012, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II, 70121X (10 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789704

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