{"id":2306,"date":"2003-05-01T19:10:02","date_gmt":"2003-05-01T19:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2016-06-17T19:10:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T19:10:36","slug":"characterizing-the-effects-of-atmospheric-conditions-on-the-sensitivity-of-the-stacee-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/characterizing-the-effects-of-atmospheric-conditions-on-the-sensitivity-of-the-stacee-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Characterizing the Effects of Atmospheric Conditions on the Sensitivity of the STACEE Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Joshua Boehm.with Corbin Covault\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Characterizing the Effects of Atmospheric Conditions on the Sensitivity of the STACEE Experiment<\/h3>\n<p>The STACEE experiment hinges on its ability to detect Cherenkov pulses of light and distinguish them from the night sky background.\u00a0 Weather conditions such as cloudiness or haze result in increased attenuation of the Cherenkov light as well as greater scattering of background light producing extra noise. This project will investigate the data generated by the SAM (STACEE ATMOSPHERIC MONITOR) data collection devices which record weather conditions and measurements of atmospheric transparency.\u00a0 Correlations will be sought between the SAM data and other STACEE observables with the goal of setting quality cutoffs and calibrating the energy scale on the<\/p>\n<p>collected STACEE data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Boehm.with Corbin Covault\u00a0Characterizing the Effects of Atmospheric Conditions on the Sensitivity of the STACEE Experiment<\/p>\n<p>The STACEE experiment hinges on its ability to detect Cherenkov pulses of light and distinguish them from the night sky background.\u00a0 Weather conditions such as cloudiness or haze result in increased attenuation of the Cherenkov light as well as greater scattering of background light producing extra noise. This project will investigate the data generated by the SAM (STACEE ATMOSPHERIC MONITOR) data collection devices which record weather conditions and measurements of atmospheric transparency.\u00a0 Correlations will be sought between the SAM data and other STACEE observables with the goal of setting quality cutoffs and calibrating the energy scale on the<\/p>\n<p>collected STACEE data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/characterizing-the-effects-of-atmospheric-conditions-on-the-sensitivity-of-the-stacee-experiment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Characterizing the Effects of Atmospheric Conditions on the Sensitivity of the STACEE Experiment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[87,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}