Title of article
Astronomy from the Antarctic Plateau: a global personal vision
Author/Authors
Hans Zinnecker، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
Pages
3
From page
636
To page
638
Abstract
The Antarctic Plateau (Dome C, also Dome A) is emerging as an especially good sitefor astronomical observations (high, dry, cold, no wind, good free seeing above a certainboundary layer). Over the last few years, several meetings and conferences tookplace to discuss potential astrophysical science cases for such exceptional atmosphericconditions. I summarise my personal conclusions from these discussions and presenta global vision (roadmap) for Antarctic Astronomy for future optical, near-IR, thermal-IR, andfar-IR/sub-mm observations. The need for international collaboration between Europe, Australia and China is stressed.
Keywords
Antarctica , telescopes , Site testing , instrumentation
Journal title
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Serial Year
2009
Journal title
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Record number
674829
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