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The global oscillation network group site survey

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The Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) Project will place a network of instruments around the world to observe solar oscillations as continuously as possible for three years. The Project has now chosen the six network sites based on analysis of survey data from fifteen sites around the world. The chosen sites are: Big Bear Solar Observatory, California; Mauna Loa Solar Observatory, Hawaii; Learmonth Solar Observatory, Australia; Udaipur Solar Observatory, India; Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife; and Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory, Chile.

Total solar intensity at each site yields information on local cloud cover, extinction coefficient, and transparency fluctuations. In addition, the performance of 192 reasonable components analysis. An accompanying paper describes the analysis methods in detail; here we present the results of both the network and individual site analyses.

The selected network has a duty cycle of 93.3%, in good agreement with numerical simulations. The power spectrum of the network observing window shows a first diurnal sidelobe height of 3 × 10−4 with respect to the central component, an improvement of a factor of 1300 over a single site. The background level of the network spectrum is lower by a factor of 50 compared to a single-site spectrum.

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  1. National Solar Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, 85726, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Frank Hill, George Fischer, Suzanne Forgach, Jennifer Grier, John W. Leibacher & Renate Kupke

  2. Mathematics Department, University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    George Fischer

  3. Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Jennifer Grier

  4. NASA/GSFC, Southwest Station, NOAO, 85726, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Harrison P. Jones

  5. Center for Computing and Information Technology, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Patricia B. Jones

  6. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Renate Kupke, Lester S. Hieda, Barry J. Labonte, Wayne M. T. Lu & Edwin M. Sousa

  7. Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, 80309, Boulder, CO, USA

    Robin T. Stebbins

  8. Arizona Western College, 85366, Yuma, AZ, USA

    Donald W. Clay & Robert E. L. Ingram

  9. Big Bear Solar Observatory, California Institute of Technology, 91125, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Kenneth G. Libbrecht & Harold Zirin

  10. Mt. Wilson Observatory, University of California, 90024, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Roger K. Ulrichi & Lawrence Websteri

  11. Mauna Loa Solar Observatory, High Altitude Observatory, 80307, Boulder, CO, USA

    Charles J. Garcia & Eric A. Yasukawa

  12. Learmonth Solar Observatory, IPS Radio and Space Services, West Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia

    John A. Kennewell & David G. Cole

  13. Urumqi Astronomical Station, Academia Sinica Xinjiang, Urumqi, China

    Huang Zhen & Xiao Su-Min

  14. Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory, Udaipur, India

    Arvind Bhatnagar & Aashok Ambastha

  15. King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Abdulrahman Sa'Ad Al-Khashlan & Muhammad-Saleh Abdul-Samad

  16. Centre National de Coordination et de Planification de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique, Rabat, Morocco

    Zouhair Benkhaldoun & Samir Kadiri

  17. Observatorio del Teide, Instituto Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain

    Francisco Sánchez & Pere L. Pallé

  18. Las Campanas Observatory, The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 91101, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Oscar Duhalde & Hernan Solis

  19. Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, 85726, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Oscar Saá & Ricardo González

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Hill, F., Fischer, G., Forgach, S. et al. The global oscillation network group site survey. Sol Phys 152, 351–379 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00680444

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