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IAU General
Assembly XXVII
Special Session 3, "Astronomy in Antarctica"
Rio de Janeiro, 6-7 August, 2009
The Working Group met at Special Session
3 during the IAU GA in Rio de Janeiro in 2009.
Final Program
Abstracts for all Talks
Proceedings, published in Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 15
Talks are linked against speakers names below.
Scientific Organising Committee
Michael Burton, Australia (chair)
Carlos Abia, Spain
John Carlstrom, USA
Vincent Coudé du Foresto, France
Xiangqun Cui, China
Sebastián Gurovich, Argentina
Takashi Ichikawa, Japan
James Lloyd, USA
Mark McCaughrean, UK
Gino Tosti, Italy
Hans Zinnecker, Germany
Principal Topics
- the current state of Antarctic astronomy, with winter-time facilities
now operating at both South Pole and Dome C on the high plateau
- plans for astronomical facilities at Domes A and F
- review of the status of all these facilities
- new science results, including results from the International
Polar Year of 2007/08
- grand design observatories, facilities that might be built
in the future, once the new high plateau bases are well established
Programme (* denotes invited talk)
Session I 06/08/09
Topic 1. Overview of Antarctic Astronomy
Astronomy in Antarctica: an overview - Michael Burton (*) (Australia)
The SCAR "Astronomy & Astrophysics from Antarctica" Scientific Research Program - John Storey (*) (Australia)
Topic 2. The South Pole
BICEP: a Cosmic Microwave Background Telescope at the South Pole - Yuki
Takahashi (USA)
Session II 06/08/09
The 10m South Pole Telescope - John Carlstrom (*) (USA)
IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole - Kirill Filimonov (*) (USA)
Observing the Universe from the South Pole - Vladimir Papitashvili (*) (USA)
Session III 06/08/09
Topic 3: Dome C
ARENA, a roadmap for astronomy in Antarctica at Concordia Station (Dome C) - Nicolas Epchtein (given by Hans Zinnecker) (*) (France)
Future Plans for Dome C - Vincent Coudé du Foresto (*) (France)
Star Formation at Dome C - Paolo Persi (cancelled) (Italy)
The LUCAS program: detecting vegetation and traces of life in the Earthshine - Danielle Briot (France)
Session IV 06/08/09
Topic 4: Dome A
CSTAR and Future Plans for Dome A - Xiangqun Cui (*) (China)
The PLATO observatory: robotic astronomy from the Antarctic plateau - Michael Ashley (*) (Australia)
Session I 07/08/09
Session 5: Dome F
Solar Cycles and Supernovae embedded in a Dome F ice core - Yuko Motizuki (Japan)
Plans for Dome F - Takashi
Ichikawa (*) (Japan)
Topic 6: Other Sites
Site testing activities on the Greenland icecap - Michael Andersen (Denmark)
Astronomy at the Belgrano Argentine Antarctic Base - Pablo Recabarren (cancelled) (Argentina)
Session II 07/08/09
Astrochemistry and Astrophotonics from Antarctica - Andreas Kelz (cancelled) (Germany)
The Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory (STO) - Gordon Stacey (*) (USA)
Topic 7: Visions for Antarctic Astronomy
Science for the Antarctic Plateau: what should we do? - Hans Zinnecker (*) (Germany)
Session III 07/08/09
Topic 8: Business Meetings
Business of the Working Group - chair: Michael Burton
Election of new committee
SCAR "Astronomy and Astrophysics from Antarctica" planning group meeting - chair: John Storey
Poster Presentations
Module for observation in the polar regions: polar robotic telescope - Petre Popescu (Romania)
CSTAR telescope and Dome A site testing - Xuefei Gong (China)
Robotic supporting for LAMOST-type focal plane on the Antarctic plateau - Guomin Wang (China)
Presentations largely consisted of reviews and reports on current
developments. Other slots in the program were been selected from abstracts submitted for IAU GA registration. Both poster and oral presentations were given. Registration for the meeting was through the registration for the IAU General Assembly. Please refer to the IAU GA website for further details.
Last update: 09/11/09
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