Dome C, Antarctica, an outstanding site for infrared astronomy
It has been demonstrated that the atmospheric conditions at Dome C are exceptionally good : the natural seeing ? can reach ? ~ 0.3 arcsec, the isoplanetic angle ? is twice or three times larger than any other observational site, and the background is extremely low in the infrared mainly due to the c...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:4249971 2023-05-15T13:46:17+02:00 Dome C, Antarctica, an outstanding site for infrared astronomy Vauglin, Isabelle 2020-11-06 https://zenodo.org/record/4249971 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4249971 unknown doi:10.5281/zenodo.4249970 https://zenodo.org/communities/ir2020 https://zenodo.org/record/4249971 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4249971 oai:zenodo.org:4249971 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode info:eu-repo/semantics/lecture presentation 2020 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.424997110.5281/zenodo.4249970 2023-03-11T01:06:36Z It has been demonstrated that the atmospheric conditions at Dome C are exceptionally good : the natural seeing ? can reach ? ~ 0.3 arcsec, the isoplanetic angle ? is twice or three times larger than any other observational site, and the background is extremely low in the infrared mainly due to the cold temperatures. The small telescope ASTEP, dedicated to exoplanet search, is already running at Concordia. But to make the best use of these exceptional characteristics, we propose to build a wide-field, high-resolution (~0.3 arcsec using Ground Layer Adaptive Optics) infrared (from 0.8 to 5 µm) off-axis telescope. With such a telescope, we'll have the highest possible dynamic range and angular resolution and wide-field imaging capabilities in the near- and thermal-infrared range to follow up the scientific programmes of extremely large instruments such E-ELT, LSST or Euclid. Conference Object Antarc* Antarctica Zenodo |
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It has been demonstrated that the atmospheric conditions at Dome C are exceptionally good : the natural seeing ? can reach ? ~ 0.3 arcsec, the isoplanetic angle ? is twice or three times larger than any other observational site, and the background is extremely low in the infrared mainly due to the cold temperatures. The small telescope ASTEP, dedicated to exoplanet search, is already running at Concordia. But to make the best use of these exceptional characteristics, we propose to build a wide-field, high-resolution (~0.3 arcsec using Ground Layer Adaptive Optics) infrared (from 0.8 to 5 µm) off-axis telescope. With such a telescope, we'll have the highest possible dynamic range and angular resolution and wide-field imaging capabilities in the near- and thermal-infrared range to follow up the scientific programmes of extremely large instruments such E-ELT, LSST or Euclid. |
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