TEXES: A sensitive and versatile spectrograph for mid-infrared astronomy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1572-1580

  Lacy, John H ^a   Richter, Matthew J ^a,b   Greathouse, Thomas K ^a   Jaffe, Daniel T ^a   Zhu, Qingfeng ^a   Knez, Claudia ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; INFRARED RADIATION; SATELLITES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

MID-INFRARED ASTRONOMY;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038634776     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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