SPICA: A spectral-photometric infrared camera for SOFIA

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3354, Issue , 1998, Pages 952-961

  Wolf, Juergen ^a   Schubert, Josef ^a   Anheyer, H ^a   Driescher, Hans ^a   Hanna, Kevin T ^b   Kirches, Stefan ^a   Paul, E ^a   Rabanus, David ^a   Rosner K ^a   Krabbe, Alfred ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared astronomy; Infrared instrumentation; SOFIA

Indexed keywords

3D IMAGING; DETECTOR DEVELOPMENT; DIFFRACTION LIMITED SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INFRA-RED CAMERAS; INFRARED ASTRONOMY; INFRARED INSTRUMENTATION; IR ASTRONOMY; IR CAMERA; LARGE AREA DETECTOR; LOW RESOLUTION; SILICON ARRAYS; SOFIA; SOFIA TELESCOPE; SPACE SENSORS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ASTROPHYSICS; CAMERAS; GERMANIUM; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; SENSORS; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 0037712565     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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