SGER: Pre-HEAT: First Submillimeter Site Testing and Astronomical Spectra from Dome A

这笔探索性研究的小额拨款将允许一名美国科学家参与由中澳天文学家组成的团队正在准备的科学计划，以及从南极海岸到内陆冰穹A的穿越。这次导线测量将由中国极地研究所承担。科学计划的目标是测量亚毫米的天空不透明度，以展示这一高海拔地点进行太赫兹天文学的特殊条件。这笔赠款将用于提供仪器设备，用于现场测试关键技术并执行660 GHz银河平面的条形图，这是Dome A进行的首批天体物理测量之一。该设备将被集成到澳大利亚设计的自主操作的研究模块中。没有美国人员将陪同设备在导线上。

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 submillimeter sky opacity to demonstrate the exceptional conditions of this high altitude site for Terahertz astronomy. This grant will be used to provide instrumentation that will field test key technologies and perform strip maps of the Galactic plane at 660 GHz, amongst the first astrophysical measurements from Dome A. The equipment will be integrated into an Australian-designed autonomously operating research module. No US personnel will accompany the equipment on the traverse.