An enhanced version of the Gaia map of the brightness of the natural sky

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Main Authors: Masana, Eduard, Bará, Salvador, Carrasco, Josep Manel, Ribas, Salvador J.
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Published: 2024
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author Masana, Eduard
Bará, Salvador
Carrasco, Josep Manel
Ribas, Salvador J.
author_facet Masana, Eduard
Bará, Salvador
Carrasco, Josep Manel
Ribas, Salvador J.
contents The GAia Map of the Brightness Of the Natural Sky (GAMBONS) is a model to map the natural night brightness of the sky in cloudless and moonless nights. It computes the star radiance from the photometric data in Gaia and Hipparcos catalogues, adding the contributions of the diffuse galactic and extragalactic light, zodiacal light and airglow, and taking into account the effects of atmospheric attenuation and scattering. The model allows computing the natural sky brightness in any given photometric band for a ground-based observer, if appropriate transformations from the Gaia bands are available. In this work we present the most recent improvements of the model, including the use of Gaia EDR3 data, the inclusion of a wide set of photometric bands and the derivation of additional sky brightness indicators, as the horizontal irradiance and the average hemispheric radiance
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spellingShingle An enhanced version of the Gaia map of the brightness of the natural sky
Masana, Eduard
Bará, Salvador
Carrasco, Josep Manel
Ribas, Salvador J.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
The GAia Map of the Brightness Of the Natural Sky (GAMBONS) is a model to map the natural night brightness of the sky in cloudless and moonless nights. It computes the star radiance from the photometric data in Gaia and Hipparcos catalogues, adding the contributions of the diffuse galactic and extragalactic light, zodiacal light and airglow, and taking into account the effects of atmospheric attenuation and scattering. The model allows computing the natural sky brightness in any given photometric band for a ground-based observer, if appropriate transformations from the Gaia bands are available. In this work we present the most recent improvements of the model, including the use of Gaia EDR3 data, the inclusion of a wide set of photometric bands and the derivation of additional sky brightness indicators, as the horizontal irradiance and the average hemispheric radiance
title An enhanced version of the Gaia map of the brightness of the natural sky
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.17371