Dome C, Antarctica, an outstanding site for infrared astronomy
It has been demonstrated that the atmospheric conditions at Dome C are exceptionally good : the natural seeing ? can reach ? ~ 0.3 arcsec, the isoplanetic angle ? is twice or three times larger than any other observational site, and the background is extremely low in the infrared mainly due to the c...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.4249970 2023-05-15T13:32:04+02:00 Dome C, Antarctica, an outstanding site for infrared astronomy Vauglin, Isabelle 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4249970 https://zenodo.org/record/4249970 unknown Zenodo https://zenodo.org/communities/ir2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4249971 https://zenodo.org/communities/ir2020 Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY Text Presentation article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4249970 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4249971 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z It has been demonstrated that the atmospheric conditions at Dome C are exceptionally good : the natural seeing ? can reach ? ~ 0.3 arcsec, the isoplanetic angle ? is twice or three times larger than any other observational site, and the background is extremely low in the infrared mainly due to the cold temperatures. The small telescope ASTEP, dedicated to exoplanet search, is already running at Concordia. But to make the best use of these exceptional characteristics, we propose to build a wide-field, high-resolution (~0.3 arcsec using Ground Layer Adaptive Optics) infrared (from 0.8 to 5 µm) off-axis telescope. With such a telescope, we'll have the highest possible dynamic range and angular resolution and wide-field imaging capabilities in the near- and thermal-infrared range to follow up the scientific programmes of extremely large instruments such E-ELT, LSST or Euclid. Conference Object Antarc* Antarctica DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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It has been demonstrated that the atmospheric conditions at Dome C are exceptionally good : the natural seeing ? can reach ? ~ 0.3 arcsec, the isoplanetic angle ? is twice or three times larger than any other observational site, and the background is extremely low in the infrared mainly due to the cold temperatures. The small telescope ASTEP, dedicated to exoplanet search, is already running at Concordia. But to make the best use of these exceptional characteristics, we propose to build a wide-field, high-resolution (~0.3 arcsec using Ground Layer Adaptive Optics) infrared (from 0.8 to 5 µm) off-axis telescope. With such a telescope, we'll have the highest possible dynamic range and angular resolution and wide-field imaging capabilities in the near- and thermal-infrared range to follow up the scientific programmes of extremely large instruments such E-ELT, LSST or Euclid. |
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