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SKYDIP effects

Currently, Tamb (the outside temperature) is used instead of Tcab in Eq. 8. The effect of this assumption is intricate, because it is used also in the SKYDIP in which Feff and Waterare both determined. If the atmospheric opacities are low, the sky brightness Tsky is a linear function of the number of airmass, and thus

\begin{displaymath}T_{emi} = (1.-F_{eff})*T_{cab} + F_{eff} * C^{te} * Water * Air\_mass
\end{displaymath} (32)

In this case Feff is underestimated, because Tamb is usually lower than Tcab. An increase in Water 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 Tamb and Tcab, the effect on Feff is only 0.01 for Feff around 0.90.



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2002-02-04