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Ten years from the Antarctic Sub-millimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Christopher L. Martin
Christopher L. Martin*
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA email: [email protected]
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Beginning with the winter season of 1995 and for the next ten years, the Antarctic Sub-mm Telescope and Remote Observatory (AST/RO, Stark et al. 1997; Stark et al. 2001; <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/ASTRO/>), a 1.7m diameter, offset Gregorian telescope located at an altitude of 2847m at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station collected sub-mm and Terahertz data in the 1.3mm to 200μm wavelength bands. From its location just a few hundred meters away from the geophysical South Pole, AST/RO was the first sub-mm telescope to over-winter on the polar plateau, a location uniquely suited to high quality sub-mm observations due its very low humidity, high atmospheric stability and thin troposphere (Chamberlin et al. 1997).

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Highlights of Astronomy 14: Highlights of Astronomy , August 2006 , pp. 686 - 688
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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