First data release (DR1) of terahertz data from the HEAT telescope at Ridge A

• Other Authors: ASHLEY, MICHAEL C.B. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), ASHLEY, MICHAEL C.B. (processor), KULESA, CRAIG (hasPrincipalInvestigator), KULESA, CRAIG (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: PLATFORM CHARACTERISTICS; EARTH SCIENCE; SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHT; ATMOSPHERE; ALTITUDE; TERAHERTZ; PLATO-R; TELESCOPES; RADIOMETERS; FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > RIDGE A; Antarctic; Milky Way; Plato; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/release-dr1-terahertz-telescope-ridge/1432224; https://doi.org/10.26179/5da7b1dc62eb4; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4011_PLATO_HEAT_DR1; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

HEAT (the High Elevation Antarctic Terahertz telescope) is a 60cm aperture telescope designed to obtain wide-field spectroscopic maps of the Milky Way in frequency bands from 0.5 to 2 THz. The telescope is described here: http://soral.as.arizona.edu/HEAT/. HEAT is part of the PLATO-R experiment, described here: https://mcba1.phys.unsw.edu.au/~plato-r/. The data set shows the strength of various atomic and molecular emission lines across wide (tens of square degrees) fields-of-view in the Galactic Plane. The spectroscopic information (i.e., doppler shift of the line frequencies) allows an estimate to be made of the distance to the emission.