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Currently,
(the outside temperature) is used instead of
in Eq. 8. The effect of this assumption is intricate, because it is used
also in the SKYDIP in which
and
are both determined. If
the atmospheric opacities are low, the sky brightness
is a linear
function of the number of airmass, and thus
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(32) |
In this case
is underestimated, because
is usually lower than
. An increase in
will compensate the lower
value of the forward efficiency. If the opacities are sufficiently high,
the linearity is no longer preserved, and the fit will be bad. However, for
20 K difference between
and
, the effect on
is
only 0.01 for
around 0.90.
Gildas manager
2014-07-01