Atmospheric extinction properties above Mauna Kea from the Nearby SuperNova Factory spectro-photometric data set
2013
We present a new atmospheric
extinctioncurve for Mauna Kea spanning 3200--9700 \AA. It is the most comprehensive to date, being based on some 4285 standard star spectra obtained on 478 nights spread over a period of 7 years obtained by the Nearby
SuperNovaFactory using the
SuperNova
Integral Field Spectrograph. This mean curve and its dispersion can be used as an aid in calibrating spectroscopic or imaging data from Mauna Kea, and in estimating the calibration uncertainty associated with the use of a mean
extinctioncurve. Our method for decomposing the
extinctioncurve into physical components, and the ability to determine the chromatic portion of the
extinctioneven on cloudy nights, is described and verified over the wide range of conditions sampled by our large dataset. We demonstrate good agreement with
atmospheric sciencedata obtain at nearby Mauna Loa Observatory, and with previously published measurements of the
extinctionabove Mauna Kea.
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