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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…

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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