Determination of Spitzer Space Telescope focus from IRAC images without a focus slew

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 186-200

  Hoffmann, William F ^a   Hora, Joseph L ^b   Mentzell, J Eric ^c   Marx, Catherine Trout ^c   Eisenhardt, Peter R ^d   Carey, Scan J ^e   Megeath, S Thomas ^b   Schwenker, John P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogenic; Focus diversity; Infrared; IRAC; Optical models; Simfit; Simulated images; SIRTF; Spitzer Space Telescope; Telescope focus

Indexed keywords

FOCUS DIVERSITY; INFRARED ARRAY CAMERAS (IRAC); OPTICAL MODELS; SIMFIT; SIMULATED IMAGE; SIRTF; SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE; TELESCOPE FOCUS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; CAMERAS; CRYOGENICS; FOCUSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 10044281794     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550649     Document Type: Conference Paper

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