Optical Sky Brightness and Transparency During the Winter Season at Dome A Antarctica From the Gattini-Allsky Camera

• Main Authors: Yang, Yi, Moore, Anna M., Krisciunas, Kevin, Wang, Lifan, Ashley, Michael C. B., Fu, Jianning, Brown, Peter J., Cui, Xiangqun, Feng, Long-Long, Gong, Xuefei, Hu, Zhongwen, Lawrence, Jon S., Luong-Van, Daniel, Riddle, Reed L., Shang, Zhaohui, Sims, Geoff, Storey, John W. V., Suntzeff, Nicholas B., Tothill, Nick, Travouillon, Tony, Yang, Huigen, Yang, Ji, Zhou, Xu, Zhu, Zhenxi
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2016
• Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics astro-ph.EP; FOS Physical sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Plato; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1610.10094; https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.10094

The summit of the Antarctic plateau, Dome A, is proving to be an excellent site for optical, NIR, and THz astronomical observations. GATTINI was a wide-field camera installed on the PLATO instrument module as part of the Chinese-led traverse to Dome A in January, 2009. We present here the measuremen...