Operation of the Near Infrared Sky Monitor at the South Pole

The near infrared sky spectral brightness has been measured at the South Pole with the Near Infrared Sky Monitor (NISM) throughout the 2001 winter season. The sky is found to be typically more than an order of magnitude darker than at temperate latitude sites, consistent with previous South Pole obs...

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Main Authors: Of Australia, J. S. Lawrence, M. C. B. Ashley, M. G. Burton, P. G. Calisse, J. R. Everett, A. Phillips, J. W. V. Storey, R. J. Pernic
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2002
Subjects:
Antarctic
South Pole
The Antarctic
Antarc*
South pole
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.7.4492
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mgb/Bibliography/./Antbib/nismlawrence.pdf
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Summary:The near infrared sky spectral brightness has been measured at the South Pole with the Near Infrared Sky Monitor (NISM) throughout the 2001 winter season. The sky is found to be typically more than an order of magnitude darker than at temperate latitude sites, consistent with previous South Pole observations. Reliable robotic operation of the NISM, a low power, autonomous instrument, has been demonstrated throughout the Antarctic winter. Data analysis yields a median winter value of the 2.4 m (K dark ) sky spectral brightness of arcsec -2 and an average of 210 80 Jy arcsec -2 . The 75%, 50%, and 25% quartile values are 270 30 Jy arcsec -2 , respectively.

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