Some results after 10 years of site testing at Concordia, Antarctica

• Main Author: Fossat, Eric
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2011
• Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM; FOS Physical sciences; Antarctic; Concordia Station; Polar Plateau; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1101.3210; https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3210

At an altitude of 3250m and at a latitude of $75^\circ$S, the Italo-French Concordia station was open to winter-over teams in 2005. It is one of the high points of the Antarctic polar plateau. These extreme remote sites are expected to provide exceptional conditions for astronomical observations, sp...