Site-testing at Muztagh-ata site I: ground meteorology and sky brightness

作者：Jing Xu, Ali Esamdin, Jinxin Hao, Jin-Min Bai, Ji Yang, Xu Zhou, Yongqiang Yao, Jin-Liang Hou, Guang-Xin Pu, Guojie Feng, Chunhai Bai, Peng Wei, Shuguo Ma, Abudusaimaitijiang Yisikandee, Letian Wang, Xuan Zhang, Liang Ming, Lu Ma, Jinzhong Liu, Zihuang Cao, Yongheng Zhao, Feng Lu, Jianrong Shi, Hualin Chen, Chong Pei, Xiaojun Jiang, Jianfeng Wang, Jian-Feng Tian, Yan‐Jie Xue, Jingyao Hu, Yun-Ying Jiang · 发表于：Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.1088/1674-4527/20/6/86 · 被引用次数：25 · 研究领域：Atmospheric aerosols and clouds、Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing、Calibration and Measurement Techniques

Abstract Site-testing is crucial for achieving the goal of scientific research and analysis of meteorological and optical observing conditions, one of the associated basic tasks. As one of three potential sites to host the 12-meter Large Optical/infrared Telescope (LOT), the Muztagh-ata site, which is located on the Pamir Plateau in Xinjiang, in west China, began its site-testing task in the spring of 2017. In this paper, we firstly start with an introduction to the site and then present a statistical analysis of the ground-level meteorological properties such as air temperature, barometric pressure, relative humidity, and wind speed and direction, recorded by an automatic weather station with standard meteorological sensors for a two-year duration. We also show the monitoring results of sky brightness during this period.