Near-infrared study of Titan's resolved disk in spectro-imaging with CFHT/OASIS

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 535-556

  Hirtzig, M ^a   Coustenis, A ^a   Lai, O ^a,b   Emsellem, E ^c   Pecontal Rousset, A ^c   Rannou, P ^d   Negrao A ^a,d   Schmitt, B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE   (United States)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ASTROPHYSIQUE DE LYON   (France)

^d SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^e Lab de Planetologie de Grenoble   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; CFHT; Imaging; Near infrared; OASIS; PUEO; Satellites; Spectrographs; Titan

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; INFRARED IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; SPECTROGRAPHS;

CFHT; NEAR INFRARED; OASIS; PUEO; TITAN;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 15844399354     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2004.08.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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