Site Testing the Highest Point on the Antarctic Plateau: the Gattini-Allsky Camera and the DASLE Turbulence Experiment at Dome A

南极高原最高点现场测试：Gattini-Allsky 相机和 Dome A 的 DASLE 湍流实验

• 批准号: 0909664
• 负责人: Anna Moore
• 金额: $ 0.5万
• 依托单位: California Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-15 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0909664&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Site; Testing; Highest; Point; Antarctic

The SGER award entitled "United States Participation in the 2007 Traverse to Dome A - Optical Sky Brightness and Ground Layer Turbulence Profiling" was awarded in 2007 to the California Institute of Technology to supply site testing instruments to the Australian PLATO autonomous module. The PLATO module was then successfully deployed at Dome A, the highest point on the Antarctic Plateau, in the 2007-08 austral summer as part of a science site-testing program jointly developed by the Australia-Chinese team of astronomers. The objectives of this project was to measure atmospheric characteristics of the site and the optical sky brightness, as well as to produce accurate cloud cover statistics and determine the extent of bright auroral activity. The observational program was mostly successful through austral winter of 2008; it is continued through 2009. This proposal seeks funding to return aforementioned instruments back to Caltech. Continued reliance on students provides a broader impact to this proposed research and firmly grounds this effort in its educational mission.

SGER奖题为“美国参与2007年穿越圆顶A -光学天空亮度和地面湍流剖面”，于2007年授予加州理工学院，为澳大利亚PLATO自主模块提供现场测试仪器。PLATO模块随后在2007-08年的南半球夏季成功地部署在南极高原的最高点Dome A，作为澳大利亚-中国天文学家联合开发的科学站点测试计划的一部分。该项目的目标是测量该站点的大气特征和光学天空亮度，以及产生准确的云量统计和确定明亮的极光活动的程度。观测项目在2008年的南方冬季基本成功；它将持续到2009年。本提案寻求资金将上述仪器归还加州理工学院。对学生的持续依赖为这项拟议的研究提供了更广泛的影响，并坚定地将这一努力作为其教育使命的基础。