A realistic science data simulator for the IRAC camera on SIRTF

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4850, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 50-61

  Ashby, Matthew L N ^a   Surace, Jason A ^b   Hora, Joseph L ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared arrays; Infrared astronomy; IRAC; Mission planning; Simulations; SIRTF

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; INFRARED DEVICES; SPACE RESEARCH;

INFRARED ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0038633346     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461786     Document Type: Conference Paper

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