Where is the Best Site on Earth? Domes A, B, C, and F, and Ridges A and B

• Main Authors: Kulesa, Craig, Suanders, Will, Minnis, Patrick, Winker, David M., Ashley, Michael C. B., Storey, John W. V., Lawrence, Jon S., Liu, Guiping, Kato, Seiji
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Astronomy; Antarctic; Dome F; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20090035727

The Antarctic plateau contains the best sites on earth for many forms of astronomy, but none of the existing bases were selected with astronomy as the primary motivation. In this paper, we try to systematically compare the merits of potential observatory sites. We include South Pole, Domes A, C and...