Pre-HEAT: submillimeter site testing and astronomical spectra from Dome A, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Kulesa, C. A., Walker, C. K., Schein, M., Golish, D., Tothill, N., Siegel, P., Weinreb, S., Jones, G., Bardin, J., Jacobs, K., Martin, C. L., Storey, J., Ashley, M., Lawrence, J., Luong-Van, D., Everett, J., Wang, L., Feng, L., Zhu, Z., Yan, J., Yang, J., Zhang, X.-G., Cui, X., Yuan, X., Hu, J., Xu, Z., Jiang, Z., Yang, H., Li, Y., Sun, B., Qin, W., Shang, Z.
• Other Authors: Stepp, Larry M., Gilmozzi, Roberto
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 2008
• Subjects: Antarctic; Plato; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Research Institute of China
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/88542/; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/88542/1/701249.pdf; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180802-154730971

Pre-HEAT is a 20 cm aperture submillimeter-wave telescope with a 660 GHz (450 micron) Schottky diode heterodyne receiver and digital FFT spectrometer for the Plateau Observatory (PLATO) developed by the University of New South Wales. In January 2008 it was deployed to Dome A, the summit of the Antar...