Optical sky brightness at Dome A, Antarctica, from the Nigel experiment
Nigel is a fiber-fed UV/visible grating spectrograph with a thermoelectrically-cooled 256×1024 pixel CCD camera, designed to measure the twilight and night sky brightness from 300 nm to 850 nm. Nigel has three pairs of fibers, each with a field-of-view with an angular diameter of 25 degrees, pointin...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.296.7549 2023-05-15T13:59:20+02:00 Optical sky brightness at Dome A, Antarctica, from the Nigel experiment Geoff Sims A Michael C. B. Ashley A Xiangqun Cui B Jon R. Everett A Longlong Feng C Xuefei Gong B Shane Hengst A Zhongwen Hu B Jon S. Lawrence E Daniel M. Luong-van A Zhaohui Shang D John W. V. Storey A Lifan Wang C Huigen Yang D Ji Yang C Xu Zhou D Zhenxi Zhu C The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.296.7549 http://mcba11.phys.unsw.edu.au/~plato/papers/sim10a.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.296.7549 http://mcba11.phys.unsw.edu.au/~plato/papers/sim10a.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://mcba11.phys.unsw.edu.au/~plato/papers/sim10a.pdf Dome A PLATO observatory site testing aurora night sky brightness text ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T21:49:39Z Nigel is a fiber-fed UV/visible grating spectrograph with a thermoelectrically-cooled 256×1024 pixel CCD camera, designed to measure the twilight and night sky brightness from 300 nm to 850 nm. Nigel has three pairs of fibers, each with a field-of-view with an angular diameter of 25 degrees, pointing in three fixed positions towards the sky. The bare fibers are exposed to the sky with no additional optics. The instrument was deployed at Dome A, Antarctica in January 2009 as part of the PLATO (PLATeau Observatory) robotic observatory. During the 2009 winter, Nigel made approximately six months of continuous observations of the sky, with typically 10 % deadtime between exposures. The resulting spectra provide quantitative information on the sky brightness, the auroral contribution, and the water vapour content of the atmosphere. We present details of the design, construction and calibration of the Nigel spectrometer, as well some sample spectra from a preliminary analysis. Text Antarc* Antarctica Unknown Plato ENVELOPE(-54.674,-54.674,-63.433,-63.433) |
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Nigel is a fiber-fed UV/visible grating spectrograph with a thermoelectrically-cooled 256×1024 pixel CCD camera, designed to measure the twilight and night sky brightness from 300 nm to 850 nm. Nigel has three pairs of fibers, each with a field-of-view with an angular diameter of 25 degrees, pointing in three fixed positions towards the sky. The bare fibers are exposed to the sky with no additional optics. The instrument was deployed at Dome A, Antarctica in January 2009 as part of the PLATO (PLATeau Observatory) robotic observatory. During the 2009 winter, Nigel made approximately six months of continuous observations of the sky, with typically 10 % deadtime between exposures. The resulting spectra provide quantitative information on the sky brightness, the auroral contribution, and the water vapour content of the atmosphere. We present details of the design, construction and calibration of the Nigel spectrometer, as well some sample spectra from a preliminary analysis. |
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Geoff Sims A Michael C. B. Ashley A Xiangqun Cui B Jon R. Everett A Longlong Feng C Xuefei Gong B Shane Hengst A Zhongwen Hu B Jon S. Lawrence E Daniel M. Luong-van A Zhaohui Shang D John W. V. Storey A Lifan Wang C Huigen Yang D Ji Yang C Xu Zhou D Zhenxi Zhu C |
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Optical sky brightness at Dome A, Antarctica, from the Nigel experiment |
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Optical sky brightness at Dome A, Antarctica, from the Nigel experiment |
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Optical sky brightness at Dome A, Antarctica, from the Nigel experiment |
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