FORCAST: The faint object infrared camera for the sofia telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4857, Issue , 2002, Pages 29-36

  Keller, Luke D ^a   Herter, Terry ^a   Stacey, Gordon ^a   Gull, George ^a   Schoenwald, Justin ^a   Pirger, Bruce ^a   Nikola, Thomas ^a  

^a Ctr for Radiophysics and Space Res ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Blocked impurity band detectors; Diamond turned optics; Infrared cameras

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; INFRARED IMAGING; OPTICAL DESIGN; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

BLOCKED IMPURITY BAND DETECTORS; DIAMOND TURNED OPTICS; INFRARED CAMERAS;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038192360     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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