Science goals for an Antarctic large infrared telescope
Over the past few years, site-testing at the South Pole has revealed conditions that are uniquely favorable for IR astronomy. In particular, the exceptionally low sky brightness throughout the near- and mid-IR leads to the possibility of a modest-sized telescope achieving comparable sensitivity to t...
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ftunswworks:oai:unsworks.library.unsw.edu.au:1959.4/38602 2023-05-15T13:52:09+02:00 Science goals for an Antarctic large infrared telescope Burton, Michael Storey, John Ashley, Michael 2000 http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/38602 EN eng http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/38602 metadata only access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ © 2003 COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. CC-BY-NC-ND Discoveries and Research Prospects from 8- to 10-Meter-Class Telescopes, Munich, Germany conference paper http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794 2000 ftunswworks 2022-08-09T07:40:53Z Over the past few years, site-testing at the South Pole has revealed conditions that are uniquely favorable for IR astronomy. In particular, the exceptionally low sky brightness throughout the near- and mid-IR leads to the possibility of a modest-sized telescope achieving comparable sensitivity to that of existing 8-10 meter class telescopes. An 8m Antarctic telescope, if constructed, would yield performance that would be unrivaled until the advent of the NGST. In this paper we review the scientific potential of IR telescopes in Antarctica, and discuss their complementarity with existing 8-10m class telescopes. Conference Object Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica South pole South pole UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales): UNSWorks Antarctic South Pole |
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Over the past few years, site-testing at the South Pole has revealed conditions that are uniquely favorable for IR astronomy. In particular, the exceptionally low sky brightness throughout the near- and mid-IR leads to the possibility of a modest-sized telescope achieving comparable sensitivity to that of existing 8-10 meter class telescopes. An 8m Antarctic telescope, if constructed, would yield performance that would be unrivaled until the advent of the NGST. In this paper we review the scientific potential of IR telescopes in Antarctica, and discuss their complementarity with existing 8-10m class telescopes. |
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