A ground calibration facility for Herschel-SPIRE

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4850, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 628-637

  Collins, Patrick A ^a   Ade, P A R ^a   Caldwell, M ^b   Ferlet, M ^b   Griffin, M J ^a   Hargrave, P C ^a   Harman, M R ^b   Smith, D L ^b   Swinyard, B M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Far Infrared; Ground Test Facility; Instrumentation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CRYOSTATS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; TEST FACILITIES;

BEAM STEERING MECHANISM;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038401227     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461568     Document Type: Conference Paper

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