Results from the South Pole Infra-Red EXplorer Telescope

• Main Authors: Rathborne, Jill, Burton, Michael
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; Eta; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/38595

The SPIREX telescope, located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, was a prototype system developed to exploit the excellent conditions for IR observing at the South Pole. Observations over two winter seasons achieved remarkably deep, high-resolution, wide-field images in the 3-5 mu m wavelengt...