Pre-HEAT: Submillimeter site testing and astronomical spectra from dome a, antarctica

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7012, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kulesa, C A ^a   Walker, C K ^a   Schein, M ^a   Golish, D ^a   Tothill, N ^b   Siegel, P ^c   Weinreb, S ^c   Jones, G ^c   Bardin, J ^c   Jacobs, K ^d   Martin, C L ^e   Storey, J ^f   Ashley, M ^f   Lawrence, J ^f   Luong Van, D ^f   Everett, J ^f   Wang, L ^g   Feng, L ^h   Zhu, Z ^h   Yan, J ^h   Yang, J ^h   Zhang, X G ^h   Cui, X ⁱ   Yuan, X ⁱ   Hu, J ^j   Xu, Z ^j   Jiang, Z ^j   Yang, H ^k   Li, Y ^k   Sun, B ^k   Qin, W ^k   Shang, Z ^l   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

ⁱ Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology   (China)

^j CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^k POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA   (China)

^l TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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Author keywords

Antarctic astronomy; Heterodyne receiver; Interstellar medium; Site testing; Star formation; Submillimeter instrumentation; Terahertz spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC ASTRONOMY; HETERODYNE RECEIVER; INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM; SITE TESTING; STAR FORMATION; SUBMILLIMETER INSTRUMENTATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; ASTROPHYSICS; DOMES; HETERODYNING; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO RECEIVERS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SPECTROSCOPY;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 66749179369     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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