M. Dolci,1 O. Straniero,1 G. Di Ricohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5213-8269,1 G. Valentini,1 A. Rivahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6928-8589,2 A. Di Cianno,1 M. Ragni,1 C. Giuliani,1 A. Valentini,1 F. Bortoletto,3 M. D'Alessandro,3 D. Magrin,3 C. Bonoli,3 D. Fantinel,3 L. Corcione,2 C. A. Abia,4 M. Busso,5 G. Tosti5
1INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Collurania-Teramo (Italy) 2INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino (Italy) 3INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy) 4Univ. de Granada (Spain) 5Univ. degli Studi di Perugia (Italy)
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AMICA is a double-armed camera designed to perform NIR/ MIR (2-28 μm) Astronomy from Antarctica. It will be
installed at Dome C in 2010-2011. An overview of the instrument is given, with attention to the following features: 1)
Winterization: AMICA has been tested under Antarctic conditions to be operated in severe environments; 2) Automation:
AMICA does not require human intervention; 3) Fast acquisition: AMICA can get images with exposure times less than
3 msec; 4) Survey-mode observations: the low background in Antarctica allows AMICA to have FOVs of 2.29 arcmin
(NIR) and 2.89 arcmin (MIR), without saturation even with wide-band filters.
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M. Dolci, O. Straniero, G. Di Rico, G. Valentini, A. Riva, A. Di Cianno, M. Ragni, C. Giuliani, A. Valentini, F. Bortoletto, M. D'Alessandro, D. Magrin, C. Bonoli, D. Fantinel, L. Corcione, C. A. Abia, M. Busso, G. Tosti, "AMICA: the NIR/MIR camera for automatic astronomical observations from Dome C, Antarctica," Proc. SPIE 7735, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III, 77353L (19 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857192