Short term minutes-time scale temporal variation statistics of sodium layer dynamics

分类： 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间： 2023-02-19

Lu Feng Kai Jin Hong-Yang Li Bo-Tian Sun Min Li Rui-Tao Wang Qi Bian Chen Wang Ming Wang Yue Liang Zhi-Xia Shen Yang-Peng Li Sui-Jian Xue

摘要： The brightness and height of the sodium laser guide star of adaptive optics could vary significantly due to the temporal dynamics of sodium column density and the mean height of sodium layer. To measure these dynamics, an independent sodium Lidar is a necessity. Without such an instrument, it is almost impossible to discern the cause of the brightness variation of laser guide star from the sodium layer's dynamics or other factors from the laser itself. For applications such as characterizing the performance of sodium laser for sodium laser guide star generation, minutes scale short term statistics of the sodium layers' abundance and height is extremely helpful for estimating the contribution of sodium layer's variation to the variation of laser guide star's brightness. In this paper, we analyzed our previous measurement of sodium layer dynamics that has been gathered in two winters, and presented the temporal variation statistics of sodium column density and mean height within minute time scale based on our measurements.

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