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

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高海拔地区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，量化地面附近的大气湍流水平和现场的光学天空特性。该相机将被集成到澳大利亚设计的自主操作研究模块中。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 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.