Submillimeter Atmospheric Transparency at Maunakea, at the South Pole, and at Chajnantor

• Published in: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Main Authors: Radford, Simon J. E., Peterson, Jeffery B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2016
• Subjects: atmospheric effects; instrumentation: miscellaneous; site testing; submillimeter: general; Pacific; South Pole; Reeves; Paine; Rivera; Valladares; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/128/965/075001

For a systematic assessment of submillimeter observing conditions at different sites, we constructed tipping radiometers to measure the broad band atmospheric transparency in the window around 350 μm wavelength. The tippers were deployed on Maunakea, Hawaii, at the South Pole, and in the vicinity o...