The independent detector testing laboratory and the NGST detector characterization project

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4850, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 981-1000

  Figer, Donald F ^a,b   Rauscher, Bernard J ^a   Regan, Michael W ^a   Balleza, Jesus ^a   Barkhouser, Robert ^b   Bergeron, Louis ^a   Greene, Gretchen ^a   Kim, Sungsoo ^a   McCandliss, Stephan ^b   Morse, Ernie ^a   Pelton, Russ ^b   Reeves, Tom ^b   Sharma, Utkarsh ^a   Stemniski, P ^a   Stockman, H S ^a   Telewicz, M ^a  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Characterization; Near infrared detectors; NGST; NIR

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; GALAXIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE STATIONS;

NEAR-INFRARED DETECTORS;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 0038739251     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461889     Document Type: Conference Paper

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