Atmospheric turbulence profiling with the Multistar Turbulence Monitor
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| 作者 | Huang WS(黄炜森)1,2; Ma, Bin1; Song TF(宋腾飞)2; Hickson, Paul3; Shang, Zhaohui4; Zhang XF(张雪飞)2; Zhao MY(赵明宇)2; Zhou, Qing5 |
| 刊名 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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| 出版日期 | 2026-06 |
| 卷号 | 549期号:1 |
| 关键词 | atmospheric effects balloons instrumentation: adaptive optics site testing |
| ISSN号 | 0035-8711 |
| DOI | 10.1093/mnras/stag886 |
| 产权排序 | 第2完成单位 |
| 文献子类 | Journal article (JA) - |
| 英文摘要 | Accurate characterization of atmospheric optical turbulence is essential for evaluating astronomical sites and optimizing adaptive optics systems. The Multistar Turbulence Monitor (MTM) infers the vertical distribution of the refractive-index structure constant (Formula presented) from differential image motion measured between multiple stellar pairs in short-exposure frames. We present a comprehensive investigation of the MTM method, combining theoretical analysis, instrument-performance assessment, numerical simulations, and on-sky observations obtained at the Daocheng Astronomical Site. Simulations based on a standard Hufnagel–Valley turbulence model demonstrate that the inversion pipeline robustly recovers both the integrated seeing and the vertical turbulence profile under realistic centroiding noise and varying pixel scales. The Markov chain Monte Carlo inversion achieves stable results with thirteen discrete height nodes and provides reliable uncertainties. Three nights of MTM measurements at the Daocheng Astronomical Site show that MTM-derived seeing closely tracks simultaneous Differential Image Motion Monitor results, accurately reproducing both short-term fluctuations and nightly averages. These results confirm that MTM provides a simple, portable, and versatile solution for atmospheric turbulence profiling and routine seeing monitoring. © The Author(s) 2026. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| 学科主题 | 物理学 ; 光学 ; 天文学 ; 天文学其他学科 ; 机械工程 ; 仪器仪表技术 ; 光学技术与仪器 ; 天文仪器 |
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| 资助项目 | National Natural Science Foundation of China[12473089];National Natural Science Foundation of China[U2031148] |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 资助机构 | National Natural Science Foundation of China[12473089, U2031148] |
| 源URL | [http://ir.ynao.ac.cn/handle/114a53/29245]  |
| 专题 | 无名山观测站 |
| 作者单位 | 1.School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, 519082, China; 2.Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Yunnan, Kunming, 650011, China; 3.Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada; 4.National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, China; 5.School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 611756, China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Huang WS,Ma, Bin,Song TF,et al. Atmospheric turbulence profiling with the Multistar Turbulence Monitor[J]. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,2026,549(1). |
| APA | 黄炜森.,Ma, Bin.,宋腾飞.,Hickson, Paul.,Shang, Zhaohui.,...&Zhou, Qing.(2026).Atmospheric turbulence profiling with the Multistar Turbulence Monitor.Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,549(1). |
| MLA | 黄炜森,et al."Atmospheric turbulence profiling with the Multistar Turbulence Monitor".Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 549.1(2026). |
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