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Science goals for an Antarctic large infrared telescope

Author(s) -

Michael Burton,

J. W. V. Storey,

M. C. B. Ashley

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1996-756X

pISSN - 0277-786X

DOI - 10.1117/12.390155

Subject(s) - telescope , sky , astronomy , complementarity (molecular biology) , brightness , remote sensing , physics , infrared , geology , genetics , biology

Over the past few years, site-testing at the South Pole has revealed conditions that are uniquely favorable forinfrared astronomy. In particular, the exceptionally low sky brightness throughout the near- and mid-infrared leadsto the possibilityofa modest-sized telescope achieving comparable sensitivitytothatof existing 8#10 metre classtelescopes. An 8 m Antarctic telescope, if constructed, would yield performance that would be unrivaled until theadvent of the NGST. In this paper we review...

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