The state of the focus and image quality of the Spitzer Space Telescope as measured in orbit

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 166-176

  Gehrz, Robert D ^a,i   Romana, Edward A ^b   Hoffmann, William F ^c   Schwenker, John P ^d   Mentzell, John E ^e   Hora, Joseph L ^f   Eisenhardt, Peter R ^b   Brandl, Bernhard R ^g   Armus, Lee ^h   Stapelfeldt, Karl R ^b   Hines, Dean C ^c   Mainzer, Amanda K ^b   Young, Erik T ^c   Elliott, David G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^g Cornell University ^*  (Netherlands)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogenic; Focus; IRAC; IRS; MIPS; Noise pixels; SIRTF; Spitzer Space Telescope (SST); Telescope

Indexed keywords

IRAC; MIPS; NOISE-PIXELS; SIRTF; SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPES;

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; COOLING; CRYOGENICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOCUSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SPACECRAFT; THERMAL EXPANSION;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 10044274370     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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