Prospects for submillimeter-wave astronomy from the Antarctic plateau

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Aug 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995aipc..342..120s&link_type=abstract

CAM-94 Physics meeting. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 342, pp. 120-124 (1995).

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Radio Telescopes And Instrumentation, Heterodyne Receivers, Radio, Microwave, Origin, Formation, Evolution, Age, And Star Formation, Star Formation

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Atmospheric opacity measurements by several investigators show that the Antarctic plateau is likely to be the best submillimeter-wave observatory site on the Earth's surface. The Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory (AST/RO), a 1.7 m offset telescope for heterodyne spectroscopy currently being installed at the South Pole, will be a proof-of-concept for a permanent Antarctic submillimeter observatory. In future, a 15-m class telescope or multi-element array at an international base on the Antarctic Plateau at 4200-m altitude could be used to observe protogalaxies and protostars. Such a telescope might be an international collaboration.

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