The AST3-NIR camera for the Kunlun Infrared Sky Survey

• Published in: SPIE Proceedings, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI
• Main Authors: Lawrence, Jon, Ashley, Michael, Burton, Michael, Cui, Xiangqun, Churilov, Vladimir, Content, Robert, Gillingham, Peter, Glazebrook, Karl, Gu, Bozhong, Ireland, Michael, Jiang, Xiang, Lu, Haiping, Moore, Anna, Mould, Jeremy, Staszak, Nicholas F., Tims, Julia, Tuthill, Peter, Wang, Lifan, Yuan, Xiangjan, Zhang, Kaiyuan, Zhelem, Ross, Zheng, Jessica
• Other Authors: Swinburne University of Technology
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: SPIE 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/433729; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233317

AST3-NIR is a new infrared camera for deployment with the AST3-3 wide-field survey telescope to Dome A on the Antarctic plateau. This project is designed to take advantage of the low Antarctic infrared sky thermal background (particularly within the K dark near infrared atmospheric window at 2.4 μm) and the long Antarctic nights to provide high sensitivity temporal data from astronomical sources. The data collected from the Kunlun Infrared Sky Survey (KISS) will be used to conduct a range of astronomical science cases including the study of supernovae, exo-planets, variable stars, and the cosmic infrared background.