Optical sky brightness at Dome A, Antarctica, from the Nigel experiment

Geoff Sims; Michael C B Ashley; Xiangqun Cui; Jon R. Everett; Long Long Feng; Xuefei Gong; Shane Hengst; Zhongwen Hu; Jon S. Lawrence; Daniel M. Luong-Van; Zhaohui Shang; John W V Storey; Lifan Wang; Huigen Yang; Ji Yang; Xu Zhou; Zhenxi Zhu

doi:10.1117/12.857795

Optical sky brightness at Dome A, Antarctica, from the Nigel experiment

Geoff Sims^*, Michael C B Ashley, Xiangqun Cui, Jon R. Everett, Long Long Feng, Xuefei Gong, Shane Hengst, Zhongwen Hu, Jon S. Lawrence, Daniel M. Luong-Van, Zhaohui Shang, John W V Storey, Lifan Wang, Huigen Yang, Ji Yang, Xu Zhou, Zhenxi Zhu

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Nigel is a fiber-fed UV/visible grating spectrograph with a thermoelectrically-cooled 256×1024 pixel CCD camera, designed to measure the twilight and night sky brightness from 300nm to 850 nm. Nigel has three pairs of fibers, each with a field-of-view with an angular diameter of 25 degrees, pointing in three fixed positions towards the sky. The bare fibers are exposed to the sky with no additional optics. The instrument was deployed at Dome A, Antarctica in January 2009 as part of the PLATO (PLATeau Observatory) robotic observatory. During the 2009 winter, Nigel made approximately six months of continuous observations of the sky, with typically 104 deadtime between exposures. The resulting spectra provide quantitative information on the sky brightness, the auroral contribution, and the water vapour content of the atmosphere. We present details of the design, construction and calibration of the Nigel spectrometer, as well some sample spectra from a preliminary analysis.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes III
Editors	Larry M. Stepp, Roberto Gilmozzi, Helen J. Hall
Place of Publication	Bellingham, Washington USA
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	1-9
Number of pages	9
Volume	7733
Edition	PART 1
ISBN (Print)	9780819482235
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857795
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes III - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: 27 Jun 2010 → 2 Jul 2010

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Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	27/06/10 → 2/07/10

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Sims, G., Ashley, M. C. B., Cui, X., Everett, J. R., Feng, L. L., Gong, X., Hengst, S., Hu, Z., Lawrence, J. S., Luong-Van, D. M., Shang, Z., Storey, J. W. V., Wang, L., Yang, H., Yang, J., Zhou, X., & Zhu, Z. (2010). Optical sky brightness at Dome A, Antarctica, from the Nigel experiment. In L. M. Stepp, R. Gilmozzi, & H. J. Hall (Eds.), Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes III (PART 1 ed., Vol. 7733, pp. 1-9). Article 77334M SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857795

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Optical sky brightness at Dome A, Antarctica, from the Nigel experiment. / Sims, Geoff; Ashley, Michael C B; Cui, Xiangqun et al.
Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes III. ed. / Larry M. Stepp; Roberto Gilmozzi; Helen J. Hall. Vol. 7733 PART 1. ed. Bellingham, Washington USA: SPIE, 2010. p. 1-9 77334M.

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