Some Antarctic site testing results
Observing conditions at the South Pole have probably been better characterised than at any other site on earth. The benefits are now well established, and include greatly reduced near- and mid-infrared sky brightness, improved atmospheric transmission, and a unique atmospheric turbulence profile wit...
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ftdatacite:10.26190/unsworks/413 2023-05-15T14:00:23+02:00 Some Antarctic site testing results Travouillon, Tony Ashley, Michael Burton, Michael Calisse, Paolo Lawrence, Jonathan Storey, John Everett, Jon 2002 https://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/413 http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/38623 unknown UNSW Sydney https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ cc by-nc-nd 3.0 CC-BY-NC-ND ConferencePaper Article conference paper 2002 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/413 2022-04-01T18:33:07Z Observing conditions at the South Pole have probably been better characterised than at any other site on earth. The benefits are now well established, and include greatly reduced near- and mid-infrared sky brightness, improved atmospheric transmission, and a unique atmospheric turbulence profile with almost zero turbulence above the lowest 200 metres of the atmosphere. The site testing work is still in progress, with a view to better understanding the residual infrared sky emission and the nature of the atmospheric turbulence. Autonomous experiments are now also currently operating at Dome C. Plans are well advanced to extend these experiments, and to study even higher altitude sites such as Vostok and Dome A. In this paper, we report the recent results from UNSW. More comprehensive reviews can be found in the literature. : SF2A2002 Conference Object Antarc* Antarctic South pole South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic South Pole |
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Observing conditions at the South Pole have probably been better characterised than at any other site on earth. The benefits are now well established, and include greatly reduced near- and mid-infrared sky brightness, improved atmospheric transmission, and a unique atmospheric turbulence profile with almost zero turbulence above the lowest 200 metres of the atmosphere. The site testing work is still in progress, with a view to better understanding the residual infrared sky emission and the nature of the atmospheric turbulence. Autonomous experiments are now also currently operating at Dome C. Plans are well advanced to extend these experiments, and to study even higher altitude sites such as Vostok and Dome A. In this paper, we report the recent results from UNSW. More comprehensive reviews can be found in the literature. : SF2A2002 |
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