Mid-Infrared Sky Brightness Site Testing at the South Pole

• Main Authors: Craig H. Smith, Doyal A. Harper
• 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; Antarctic; Austral; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Joint Australian Centre for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.296.176; http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jacara/Papers/pdf/pasp_1998_110_747.pdf

ABSTRACT. During the austral summer of 1996, the mid-infrared imaging polarimeter NIMPOL was operated at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, to obtain quantitative measurements of the 10 and 20 mm sky brightness and stability. These observations were conducted as part of the Joint Australian Cent...