Abstract
On the Antarctic plateau, a joint project of French and Italian polar programmes is nearing completion: the Concordia station will be open for winter-over operation in 2005. The high altitude and high latitude of this site, the exceptionally cold, clear and stable atmosphere, its incredible astronomical seeing, the almost indefinitely flat snow surface and the not-so-difficult access make this site the most promising on Earth for future ground-based astronomical projects in various fields, including long term photometry, infrared high sensitivity imaging and high angular resolution and high contrast imaging.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Aristidi, E.et al. 2003,A&A Letters,406, L19.
Aristidi, E.et al. 2004,A&A,430, 739.
Aristidi, E.et al. 2005, in preparation.
Grec, G., Fossat, E., Pomerantz, M. A. 1980,Nature,288, 541.
Kornilov, V.et al. 2003,Proc. SPIE,4839, 837–845.
Lawrence, J. S., Ashley, M. C., Tokovinin, A., Travouillon, T. 2004,Nature,431, 278.
Marks, R. D., Vernin, J., Azouit, M., Manigault, J. F., Clevlin, C. 1998,A&A Suppl. Ser.,134, 161.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Fossat, E. The Concordia station on the Antarctic plateau: The best site on earth for the 21st century astronomers. J Astrophys Astron 26, 349–357 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02702343
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02702343