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FTS Opacity Measurements of the South Pole Submillimeter Sky

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Richard A. Chamberlin*
Affiliation:
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, 111 Nowelo Street, Hilo, HI 96720

Abstract

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A sub-millimeter Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) was used at the South Pole to acquire wide frequency span (300 GHz < v < 2 THz) measurements of the atmospheric opacity, T(V). Comparisons were made with other ongoing measurements to allow inference of typical wintertime observing statistics.

Type
II. Special Scientific Sessions
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2005

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