Optical Sky Brightness and Transparency during the Winter Season at Dome A Antarctica from the Gattini-All-Sky Camera

• Published in: The Astronomical Journal
• Main Authors: Yang, Yi, Moore, Anna, Krisciunas, Kevin, Wang, Lifan, Ashley, Michael, Fu, Jianning, Brown, Peter, Cui, Xiangqun, Lawrence, J S, Luong-Van, Daniel M, Suntzeff, N
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Chicago Press
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Plato; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/218292; https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa73dc

The summit of the Antarctic plateau, Dome A, is proving to be an excellent site for optical, near-infrared, and terahertz astronomical observations. Gattini is a wide-field camera installed on the PLATO instrument module as part of the Chinese-led traverse to Dome A in 2009 January. We present here...