The GALEX mission and detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5488, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 13-24

  Siegmund, Oswald ^f   Welsh, Barry ^f   Martin, Christopher ^a   Barlow, Tom ^a   Bianchi, Luciana ^c   Byun, Yong Ik ^g   Forster, Karl ^a   Friedman, Peter G ^a   Jelinsky, Patrick ^f   Madore, Barry ^e   Malina, Roger ^b,f   Milliard, Bruno ^b   Morrissey, Patrick ^a   Neff, Susan ^h   Rich, Mike ^d   Schiminovich, David ^a   Small, Todd ^a   Szalay, Alex ^c   Wyder, Ted ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Far ultraviolet; GALEX; Imaging; Microchannel plates; Near ultraviolet; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

FAR ULTRAVIOLET; GALAXY EVOLUTION EXPLORER (GALEX); MICROCHANNEL PLATES; NEAR ULTRAVIOLET;

DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SATELLITES; SURVEYING; ULTRAVIOLET DETECTORS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 10044279482     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.561488     Document Type: Conference Paper

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