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Site testing at Dome C: history and present status

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The idea of starting an astronomical site testing in Antarctica began during a congress organized by French Académie des Sciences, in 1992, and entitled ‘Recherches polaires-Une Stratégie pour l'an 2000’. At this time, one of us (Vernin 1994) gave a proposal for an astronomical site testing in Antarctica. This proposal was rapidly followed by a meeting between Al Harper (from ‘Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica’, Chicago), Peter Gillingham (from the Anglo Australian Observatory, Australia) and Jean Vernin (from Nice University) at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, in 1993. It was decided to investigate what was the astronomical quality of South Pole station, each institute bringing its own participation: CARA, the South Pole infrastructure, University of New South Wales, a PhD student and Nice University its expertise and instruments.

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hal-02480568 , version 1 (16-02-2020)

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Jean Vernin, Abdelkrim Agabi, Eric Aristidi, Max Azouit, Merieme Chadid, et al.. Site testing at Dome C: history and present status. IAU XXVIth General Assembly, 2006, Prague, Czech Republic. pp.693-694, ⟨10.1017/S1743921307012288⟩. ⟨hal-02480568⟩
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