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The best site on Earth? Proceedings of the 3rd ARENA Conference, EAS Publications Series, 2010 (Ref: 14025)
Category 3: Conference paper

We compare the merits of potential observatory sites on the … Antarctic Plateau, in regard to the boundary layer, cloud cover, free … atmosphere seeing, aurorae, airglow, and precipitable water vapour. We find that (a)…

THz astrophysics from Dome A Proceedings of the 3rd ARENA Conference, EAS Publications Series, 2010 (Ref: 14024)
Category 3: Conference paper

The THz spectral region includes a number of important … transitions which allow us to trace the evolution of the interstellar … medium. Because of the opacity of the atmosphere in this spectral … range, the best sites for ground-based THz observations are on the … Antarctic Plateau; of these sites…

Where is the best site on Earth? Domes A, B, C and F, and Ridges A and B Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2009 (Ref: 14012)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The Antarctic plateau contains the best sites on earth for many forms of astronomy, but … none of the existing bases was selected with astronomy as the primary motivation. In this paper, we try to systematically compare the merits of potential observatory sites. We include South … Pole, Domes A…

Pre-HEAT: submillimeter site testing and astronomical spectra from Dome A, Antarctica Proceedings of SPIE 7012, 7012491-11, 2008 (Ref: 13765)
Category 3: Conference paper

Pre-HEAT is a 20 cm aperture submillimeter-wave telescope with a 660 GHz (450 micron) Schottky diode heterodyne … receiver and digital FFT spectrometer for the Plateau Observatory (PLATO) developed by the University of New South … Wales. In January 2008 it was deployed to Dome A…

Does your robot need a flamethrower? Automated astronomical instrumentation in Antarctica Astronomische Nachrichten, 2008 (Ref: 13772)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The Antarctic Plateau contains sites with the potential to be the best in the world for many astronomical observations. The Plateau has strong advantages in the waveband between thermal-IR and millimetre-waves, for time-based astronomy, and for adaptive optics and interferometry.

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