CSIRO PUBLISHING www.publish.csiro.au/journals/pasa Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2004, 21, 1–8 Submillimeter Site Testing at Dome C, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Paolo G. Calisse, Michael C. B. Ashley, Michael G. Burton, Michael A. Phillips, John W. V. Storey, Simon J. E. Radford, Jeffrey B. Peterson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: atmospheric effects — instrumentation; miscellaneous — site testing — submillimeter; Antarctic; Pasa; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.67.7297; http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mgb/Antbib/summit_calisse.pdf

Abstract: We have developed a 350 µm radiometer to perform automated site testing in remote regions of Antarctica. In summer 2000–2001 the instrument operated at Concordia, a new station under construction at Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau. We present the results, and compare them with the atmospheric opacity measured at the South Pole in the same five-week period. During these five weeks, observing conditions at Dome C were, on average, substantially better than those at the South Pole.