Site characteristics of the high Antarctic plateau
Abstract
A brief review is given of the major results from the last twenty years of astronomical site-testing in Antarctica. Suggestions are made for how to resolve some outstanding questions, such as the infrared sky background at Antarctic sites other than South Pole station.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics from Antarctica
- Pub Date:
- January 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921312016614
- Bibcode:
- 2013IAUS..288...15A
- Keywords:
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- site testing;
- atmospheric effects;
- techniques: photometric