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Site characteristics of the high Antarctic plateau

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2013

Michael C. B. Ashley*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia email: [email protected]
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A brief review is given of the major results from the last twenty years of astronomical site-testing in Antarctica. Suggestions are made for how to resolve some outstanding questions, such as the infrared sky background at Antarctic sites other than South Pole station.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013

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