Looking Deep from the South Pole: Star Formation in the Thermal Infrared

• Main Authors: Michael Burton John, John W. V. Storey, Michael C. B. Ashley
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: McLean (Kluwer 1998
• Subjects: Antarctic; Hubble; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.27.1389; http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mgb/Antbib/lookingdeep.ps.gz

. 1 The Antarctic Plateau provides the pre-eminent conditions on the Earth for widefield imaging at thermal infrared wavelengths. We describe a project to equip the 60 cm SPIREX telescope at the South Pole with a large format (1024 \Theta 1024) IR array camera (Abu) to demonstrate this potential. Wi...