Performance of the autonomous PLATO Antarctic Observatory over two full years

• Main Authors: Daniel M. Luong-van *a, Michael C. B. Ashley A, Xiangqun Cui B, Jon R. Everett A, Longlong Feng C, Xuefei Gong B, Shane Hengst A, Jon S. Lawrence D, John W. V. Storey A, Lifan Wang C, Huigen Yang G, Ji Yang C, Xu Zhou H, Zhengxi Zhu C
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctica; remote power; robotics; site-testing; Antarctic; Plato; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.367.4657; http://www.aao.gov.au/instsci/spie2010/PSI77331T.pdf

For continuous observation at locations that are inhospitable for humans, the desirability of autonomous observatories is self evident. PLATO, the ‘PLATeau Observatory ’ was designed to host an easily configurable instrument suite in the extremely cold conditions on the Antarctic plateau, and can pr...