SGER: United States participation in the 2007 Traverse to Dome A- Optical Sky Brightness and Ground Layer Turbulence Profiling

这项探索性研究的小额赠款将允许一名美国科学家参与由中国-澳大利亚天文学家小组准备的科学计划，并从南极海岸到内陆的Dome A。 这次穿越将由中国极地研究所承担。 科学计划的目标是测量高海拔地点的大气特征及其对天文观测质量的影响。 这笔赠款将用于提供仪器，将量化近地面的大气湍流水平，并在现场的光学天空属性。 该相机将被集成到澳大利亚设计的自动操作研究模块中。 没有美国人员将陪同设备进行穿越。

This Small Grant for Exploratory Research will allow the participation of a U.S. scientist in the science program being prepared by a Chinese-Australian team of astronomers, and in a traverse from the Antarctic coast to Dome A in the interior. The traverse will be undertaken by the Polar Research Institute of China. The objective of the science program is to measure the atmospheric characteristics of the high altitude site and their impact on the quality of astronomical observations. This grant will be used to provide instrumentation that will quantify the level of atmospheric turbulence near the surface, and the optical sky properties at the site. The camera will be integrated into an Australian-designed autonomously operating research module. No US personnel will accompany the equipment on the traverse.