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Site testing in summer at Dome C, Antarctica

Astrophysics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We present summer site testing results based on DIMM data obtained at Dome C, Antarctica. These data have been collected on the bright star Canopus during two 3-months summer campaigns in 2003-2004 and 2004-2005. We performed continuous monitoring of the seeing a nd the isoplanatic angle in the visible. We found a median seeing of 0.54 \arcsec and a median isoplanatic angle of 6.8 \arcsec. The seeing appears to have a deep minimum around 0.4 \arcsec almost every day in late afternoon.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0507475,
  title  = {Site testing in summer at Dome C, Antarctica},
  author = {Eric Aristidi and Abdelkrim Agabi and Eric Fossat and Max Azouit and Francois Martin and Tatiana Sadibekova and Tony Travouillon and Jean Vernin and Aziz Ziad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0507475},
  year   = {2009}
}
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