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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
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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.
Gildas manager
2002-02-04