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Extremely Large Telescopes on the Antarctic plateau

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

J.S. Lawrence
J.S. Lawrence*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia

Abstract

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The primary limitation to the performance of any large ground-based telescope is the atmospheric properties of its site, particularly the sky emission and the turbulence structure. There are several sites on the Antarctic plateau (South Pole, Dome C and Dome A) for which the increase in infrared sensitivity relative to a mid-latitude site should be as much as two orders of magnitude. The unique turbulent structure above Dome C indicates that an extremely large telescope equipped with only a natural guide star adaptive optics system should achieve equivalent resolution to a mid-latitude extremely large telescope with a multi-conjugate multi-laser guide star system.

Type
II. Special Scientific Sessions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 13 , 2005 , pp. 956 - 957
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2005

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