“…The Antarctic plateau offers a number of unique advantages for precision, ground-based, time-domain as-tronomy, such as the ability to observe continuously during winter, low scintillation noise, excellent seeing above a very low boundary layer, low airmass variations, low aerosols, low water vapor, more stable atmospheric transmission, wider wavelength windows, and a dark sky in the infrared (Lawrence et al 2004(Lawrence et al , 2006(Lawrence et al , 2008Moore et al 2008;Kulesa et al 2008;Aristidi et al 2009;Burton 2010;Zou et al 2010;Yang et al 2010;Sims et al 2010;Bonner et al 2010;Lascaux et al 2011;Tremblin et al 2011;Pei et al 2011Pei et al , 2012Sims et al 2012a,b;Giordano et al 2012;Storey 2013;Hu et al 2014;Ashley 2013;Yang et al 2016). There is thus considerable interest in overcoming the technical challenges of operating in Antarctica, so that the advantages for astronomy can be realized (Tothill et al 2008;Kulesa et al 2008;Crouzet et al 2010;Chapellier et al 2016;Mékarnia et al 2016).…”