Monday, 18th August at 11.00am at the JAC
Nick Tothill
University of Exeter, U.K.
"Submillimetre site-testing at Dome A, Antarctica"
ABSTRACT: Dome A, the highest point on the Antarctic plateau, may
have the best submm/THz observing conditions in the world. The
Australian/Chinese PLATO is a fully-autonomous site-testing and
astrophysical observatory which has been operating at Dome A for about
6 months to characterise the site. One of PLATO's instruments is
preHEAT, a submm tipper/telescope to measure the opacity and survey in
13CO 6-5. I'll show some preliminary results, talk about the
potential of Dome A and about the kinds of science that would benefit
most from such a location.
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