Prospect of China's Auroral Fine-structure Imaging System (CAFIS) at Zhongshan station in Antarctica

A new auroral imaging system is reported which is planned to be deployed at Zhongshan Station in Antarctica in the end of 2009. The system will focus on study of optical auroras in small scales and be called China's Auroral Fine-structure Imaging System (CAFIS). The project of CAFIS is carried...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shunlin, Liu, Desheng, Han, Hongqiao, Hu, Dehong, Huang, Beichen, Zhang, Huigen, Yang
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 2008
Subjects:
Space
Zhongshan
Zhongshan Station
Advances in Polar Science
Antarc*
Antarctica
Polar Science
Online Access:http://library.arcticportal.org/2366/
http://library.arcticportal.org/2366/1/A200802016.pdf
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Summary:A new auroral imaging system is reported which is planned to be deployed at Zhongshan Station in Antarctica in the end of 2009. The system will focus on study of optical auroras in small scales and be called China's Auroral Fine-structure Imaging System (CAFIS). The project of CAFIS is carried out by support of the tenth five-year plan for capacity building of China. CAFIS will be a powerful ground-based platform for aurora observational experiments. Composing and advantages of CAFIS are introduced in this brief report. Some potential study topics involved CAFIS are also considered.

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