Òscar Martínez - The Barcelona Raman LIDAR

Wednesday Dec 19, 2018, 1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Europe/Madrid

Seminar (IFAE)

Marc Manera (IFAE), Stefano Terzo (IFAE)

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) aims to provide high-precision data extending the duty cycle as much as possible. To reach this goal, it is necessary to continuously and precisely monitor the atmosphere by means of remote-sensing devices, which are able to provide altitude-resolved and wavelength-dependent extinction factors, sensitive up to the tropopause and higher. Raman LIDARs are currently the best suited technology to achieve this goal with one single instrument.

In this talk, I will focus on the technical aspects of the Barcelona Raman LIDAR development: its electronics, optics, mechanics and software. The first light results will also be presented.

1:00 PM → 1:05 PM Introduction and General Announcements

Speakers: Dr Marc Manera (IFAE), Dr Stefano Terzo (IFAE)

1:05 PM → 1:25 PM Presentation of the Week

Speaker: Mr Òscar Martínez (IFAE)

1:25 PM → 1:35 PM Discussion

1:35 PM → 2:00 PM Pizza