Gattini 2010: cutting edge science at the bottom of the world

Anna M. Moore; Sara Ahmed; Michael C. B. Ashley; Max K. Barreto; Xiangqun Cui; Alex Delacroix; Longlong Feng; Xuefei Gong; Jon Lawrence; Daniel M. Luong-Van; D. Christopher Martin; Reed Riddle; Nicole Rowley; Zhaohui Shang; John W. V. Storey; Nick F. H. Tothill; Tony Travouillon; Lifan Wang; Huigen Yang; Ji Yang; Xu Zhou; Zhengxi Zhu

doi:10.1117/12.858187

5 August 2010 Gattini 2010: cutting edge science at the bottom of the world

Anna M. Moore, Sara Ahmed, Michael C. B. Ashley, Max K. Barreto, Xiangqun Cui, Alex Delacroix, Longlong Feng, Xuefei Gong, Jon Lawrence, Daniel M. Luong-Van, D. Christopher Martin, Reed Riddle, Nicole Rowley, Zhaohui Shang, John W. V. Storey, Nick F. H. Tothill, Tony Travouillon, Lifan Wang, Huigen Yang, Ji Yang, Xu Zhou, Zhengxi Zhu

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Proceedings Volume 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III; 77331S (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858187
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The high altitude Antarctic sites of Dome A and the South Pole offer intriguing locations for future large scale optical astronomical Observatories. The Gattini project was created to measure the optical sky brightness, large area cloud cover and aurora of the winter-time sky above such high altitude Antarctic sites. The Gattini- DomeA camera was installed on the PLATO instrument module as part of the Chinese-led traverse to the highest point on the Antarctic plateau in January 2008. This single automated wide field camera contains a suite of Bessel photometric filters (B, V, R) and a long-pass red filter for the detection and monitoring of OH emission. We have in hand one complete winter-time dataset (2009) from the camera that was recently returned in April 2010. The Gattini-South Pole UV camera is a wide-field optical camera that in 2011 will measure for the first time the UV properties of the winter-time sky above the South Pole dark sector. This unique dataset will consist of frequent images taken in both broadband U and B filters in addition to high resolution (R~5000) long slit spectroscopy over a narrow bandwidth of the central field. The camera is a proof of concept for the 2m-class Antarctic Cosmic Web Imager telescope, a dedicated experiment to directly detect and map the redshifted lyman alpha fluorescence or Cosmic Web emission we believe possible due to the unique geographical qualities of the site. We present the current status of both projects.

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Anna M. Moore, Sara Ahmed, Michael C. B. Ashley, Max K. Barreto, Xiangqun Cui, Alex Delacroix, Longlong Feng, Xuefei Gong, Jon Lawrence, Daniel M. Luong-Van, D. Christopher Martin, Reed Riddle, Nicole Rowley, Zhaohui Shang, John W. V. Storey, Nick F. H. Tothill, Tony Travouillon, Lifan Wang, Huigen Yang, Ji Yang, Xu Zhou, and Zhengxi Zhu "Gattini 2010: cutting edge science at the bottom of the world", Proc. SPIE 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III, 77331S (5 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858187

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