Plans for a 10-m Submillimeter-wave Telescope at the South Pole

• Main Authors: Antony A. Stark A, John E. Carlstrom B, Frank P. Israel C, Karl M. Menten D, Jeffrey B. Peterson E, T. G. Phillips F, Giorgio Sironi G, Christopher K. Walker H
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.256.998; http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9802326v1.pdf

A 10 meter diameter submillimeter-wave telescope has been proposed for installation and scientific use at the NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Current evidence indicates that the South Pole is the best submillimeter-wave telescope site among all existing or proposed ground-based observatories....