Submillimeter site testing at Dome C, Antarctica

• Published in: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
• Main Authors: Calisse, Paolo, Ashley, Michael, Burton, Michael, Phillips, Michael, Storey, John, Radford, Simon, Peterson, Jeffrey
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: atmospheric effects; instrumentation : miscellaneous; site testing; submillimeter; Antarctic; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/38619; https://doi.org/10.1071/AS03018

We have developed a 350 mum radiometer to perform automated site testing in remote regions of Antarctica. In summer 2000 - 2001 the instrument operated at Concordia, a new station under construction at Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau. We present the results, and compare them with the atmospheric opacity measured at the South Pole in the same five-week period. During these five weeks, observing conditions at Dome C were, on average, substantially better than those at the South Pole.