Optical sky brightness at Dome A, Antarctica, from the Nigel experiment

• Main Authors: 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
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Dome A; PLATO observatory; site testing; aurora; night sky brightness; Plato; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.296.7549; http://mcba11.phys.unsw.edu.au/~plato/papers/sim10a.pdf

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...