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 M., Krisciunas, Kevin, Wang, Lifan, Ashley, Michael C. B., Fu, Jianning, Brown, Peter J., Cui, Xiangqun, Feng, Long-Long, Gong, Xuefei, Hu, Zhongwen, Lawrence, Jon S., Luong-van, Daniel, Riddle, Reed L., Shang, Zhaohui, Sims, Geoff, Storey, John W. V., Suntzeff, Nicholas B., Tothill, Nick, Travouillon, Tony, Yang, Huigen, Yang, Ji, Zhou, Xu, Zhu, Zhenxi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Astronomical Society 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; Plato; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/78129/; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/78129/1/Yang_2017_AJ_154_6.pdf; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/78129/2/1610.10094.pdf; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170612-154057957

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...