Antarctica as a launch-pad for space astronomy missions

In the coming decades, astronomical breakthroughs will increasingly come from observations from the best groundbased locations and from space observatories. At infrared and sub-millimetre wavelengths in particular, Antarctica offers site conditions that are found nowhere else on earth. There are two...

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Main Authors: J. W. V. Storey, M. G. Burton, M. C. B. Ashley
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spelling ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.152.7202 2023-05-15T13:38:15+02:00 Antarctica as a launch-pad for space astronomy missions J. W. V. Storey M. G. Burton M. C. B. Ashley The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2002 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.152.7202 http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mcba/pubs/storey02.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.152.7202 http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mcba/pubs/storey02.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mcba/pubs/storey02.pdf Space Antarctica interferometry text 2002 ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T15:23:54Z In the coming decades, astronomical breakthroughs will increasingly come from observations from the best groundbased locations and from space observatories. At infrared and sub-millimetre wavelengths in particular, Antarctica offers site conditions that are found nowhere else on earth. There are two implications of this. First, for tackling some of the most crucial problems in astrophysics, a large telescope in Antarctica can outperform any other ground-based facility. Second, with infrared backgrounds between one and two orders of magnitude below those at other sites, superior sub-mm transmission and extraordinarily low atmospheric turbulence above the boundary layer, Antarctica offers designers of space missions a unique test-bed for their ideas and instrumentation. Text Antarc* Antarctica Unknown
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