Abstract
This invited talk discusses the pulsating star research from the heart of Antarctica and the scientific polar challenges in the extreme environment of Antarctica, and how the new polar technology could cope with unresolved stellar pulsation enigmas and evolutionary properties challenges towards an understanding of the mysteries of the Universe.PAIX, the first robotic photometer Antarctica program, has been successfully launched during the polar night 2007. This ongoing program gives a new insight to cope with unresolved stellar enigmas and stellar oscillation challenges with a great opportunity to benefit from an access to the best astronomical site on Earth, Dome C. PAIX achieves astrophysical measurement time-series of stellar fields, challenging photometry from space. A continuous and an uninterrupted series of multi-color photometric observations has been collected each polar night – 150 days – without regular interruption, Earth’s rotation effect. PAIX shows the first light curve from Antarctica and first step for the astronomy in Antarctica giving new insights in remote polar observing runs and robotic instruments towards a new technology.
Highlights
This invited talk discusses the pulsating star research from the heart of Antarctica and the scientific polar challenges in the extreme environment of Antarctica, and how the new polar technology could cope with unresolved stellar pulsation enigmas and evolutionary properties challenges towards an understanding of the mysteries of the Universe
In what follows we summarize a brief review of the PAIX polar mission, the concepts and polarcraft
We discuss the technical and financial gaps between space telescopes and PAIX Polar Mission and we present the first PAIX outcomes on the stellar pulsation fields
Summary
PAIX has been “antarctized” to run under extreme weather conditions with temperatures as low as −80◦C, and has been robotized, designed and built by PAIXTeam. In what follows we summarize a brief review of the PAIX polar mission, the concepts and polarcraft. We discuss the technical and financial gaps between space telescopes and PAIX Polar Mission and we present the first PAIX outcomes on the stellar pulsation fields
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