Antarctic Astronomy---Its Potential Importance for Research Into the Interstellar Medium

• Main Authors: Storey Burton And, J. W. V. Storey, M. G. Burton, M. C. B. Ashley
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Burton; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42.5763; http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mgb/Antbib/zermatt.ps.gz

this paper, the benefits of an antarctic observatory extend right across the infrared and sub-millimetre. Not only do spectral lines that are otherwise inaccessible become amenable to study, but substantial sensitivity gains can be achieved across almost the entire spectrum. Particularly enticing is the prospect of achieving very high sensitivity infrared images, corrected across a large field of view, at wavelengths that have previously been little studied. For example, SPIREX/Abu has already produced large mosaic images of NGC6334 and the Large Storey, Burton, Ashley