Dome A, Antarctica : prospectives for terahertz astronomy from the ground

• Main Authors: Kulesa, Craig A., Walker, Christopher K., Schein, M., Golish, Dathon R., Tothill, Nicholas F. H. (R17058), Siegel, Peter H., Weinreb, Sander, Jones, Glenn M., Bardin, Joseph C., Jacobs, Karl, Martin, Christopher L., Storey, John W., Ashley, Michael C. B., Lawrence, Jon S., Luong-Van, Daniel M., Everett, Jon R., Wang, Lifan, Feng, Longlong, Zhu, Zhenxi, Yan, Jun, Yang, Ji, Zhang, Xuguo, Cui, Xiangqun, Yuan, Xiangyan, Hu, Jinwen, Xu, Zhou, Jiang, Zhaoji, Yang, Huigen, Li, Yuanshen, Sun, Bo, Qin, Weijian, Shang, Zhaohui
• Other Authors: Wild, Wolfgang (Editor), International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology (Event place)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands, SRON/TU Delft/University of Groningen 2008
• Subjects: 020102 - Astronomical and Space Instrumentation; 020104 - Galactic Astronomy; 970102 - Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences; Antarctic; Plato; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Research Institute of China; South pole
• Online Access: http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/548707; http://www.nrao.edu/meetings/isstt/2008.shtml

Over a decade of site testing and operation of submillimeter telescopes has shown that the high Antarctic Plateau (South Pole) and Chilean Atacama desert (Chajnantor) are exceptional ground-based sites for submillimeter and terahertz astronomy. The highest sites at both locations (Dome A and the Cha...