Rocket-borne instrument to search for infrared emission from baryonic dark matter in galactic halos

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3354, Issue , 1998, Pages 1139-1149

  Bock, James J ^a   Kawada, Mitsunobu ^b   Lange, Andrew E ^c   Matsumoto, Toshio ^b   Uemizu, Kazunori ^b,d   Watabe, Toyoki ^d   Yost, S A ^c   Fazio, Giovanni G ^e   Forrest, William J ^f   Pipher, Judith L ^f   Price, Stephan D ^g  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^g AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baryonic matter; Galactic halos; Infrared astronomy; InSb

Indexed keywords

BARYONIC MATTER; DARK MATTER; FLIGHT PERFORMANCE; GALACTIC HALO; GALACTIC HALOS; INFRARED ASTRONOMY; INFRARED EMISSIONS; INSB; LIMITED SENSITIVITY; NEAR-IR; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SCIENTIFIC RESULTS; SPACE-BORNE; SPIRAL GALAXIES; WAVEBAND;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; GALAXIES; HELIUM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; ROCKETS; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; TELESCOPES;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0041016945     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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