An engineering concept and enabling technologies for a large Single Aperture Far-Infrared Observatory (SAFIR)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4850, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1120-1131

  Amato, Michael J ^a   Benford, Dominic J ^a   Harvey Moseley, S ^a   Roman, Juan A ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolometer arrays; Cryogenic optics; FAIR; Far infrared; NGST; SAFIR; Submillimeter

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; CRYOGENICS; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL DEVICES;

SINGLE APERTURE FAR-INFRARED OBSERVATORY (SAFIR);

OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 0038739240     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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