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Review of Antarctic astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2013

John W. V. Storey
John W. V. Storey*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia email: j.storey@unsw.edu.au
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Abstract

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Astronomers have always sought the best sites for their telescopes. Antarctica, with its high plateau reaching to above 4,000 metres, intense cold, exceptionally low humidity and stable atmosphere, offers what for many forms of astronomy is the ultimate observing location on this planet. While optical, infrared and millimetre astronomers are building their observatories on the ice, particle physicists are using the ice itself as a detector and exploration of the terahertz region is being conducted from circumpolar long-duration balloons. Remarkable astronomical discoveries are already coming out of Antarctica, and much, much more is just around the corner.

Keywords

AntarcticaArctic
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S288: Astrophysics from Antarctica , August 2012 , pp. 1 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013

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