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The cold, dry and stable air above the summits of the Antarctic plateau provides the best ground-based observing conditions from optical to sub-mm wavelengths to be found on the Earth. PILOT is a proposed 2m telescope, to be built at Dome C in Antarctica, able to exploit these conditions for conduct...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.254.6639 2023-05-15T13:43:36+02:00 To appear in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia T. Wong A D. Woods A P. C. M. Yock L The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2004 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.254.6639 http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0411612v2.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.254.6639 http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0411612v2.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0411612v2.pdf text 2004 ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T19:52:50Z The cold, dry and stable air above the summits of the Antarctic plateau provides the best ground-based observing conditions from optical to sub-mm wavelengths to be found on the Earth. PILOT is a proposed 2m telescope, to be built at Dome C in Antarctica, able to exploit these conditions for conducting astronomy at optical and infrared wavelengths. While PILOT is intended as a pathfinder towards the construction of future grand-design facilities, it will also be able to undertake a range of fundamental science investigations in its own right. This paper provides the performance specifications for PI-LOT, including its instrumentation. It then describes the kinds of science projects that it could best conduct. These range from planetary science to the search for other solar systems, from star formation within the Galaxy to the star formation history of the Universe, and from gravitational lensing caused by exo-planets to that produced by the cosmic web of dark matter. PILOT would be particularly powerful for wide-field imaging at infrared wavelengths Text Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Unknown Antarctic The Antarctic |
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