Sensitivity of an imaging space infrared interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 514-526

  Nakajima, Tadashi ^a   Matsuhara, Hideo ^b  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

SPACE INFRARED INTERFEROMETERS;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 0007391590     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000514     Document Type: Article

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