Optical Seeing and Infrared Atmospheric Transparency in the Upper Atacama Desert
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With plans to build a large optical/IR telescope in the Atacama Desert, a site survey campaign has been under way since 1998 to characterize the optical seeing and the IR transparency in the Chajnantor Plateau region in Chile. Results of that campaign are herein presented.
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