EXES: An echelon-cross-echelle spectrograph for SOFIA

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3354, Issue , 1998, Pages 962-972

  Richter, Matthew J ^a   Lacy, John H ^a   Jaffe, Daniel T ^a   Hemenway, Mary Kay ^a   Yu, Wanglong ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared; Interstellar medium; SOFIA; Spectrograph

Indexed keywords

ECHELLE GRATINGS; ECHELLE SPECTROGRAPH; FIRST ORDER; GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; IMAGING OPTICS; INFRARED; INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM; IR ASTRONOMY; LOW RESOLUTION; MOLECULAR CLOUDS; OPERATING MODES; SI:AS IBC; SOFIA; TWO PLATES;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; CLOUDS; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 0004612437     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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