A SPECS update: Engineering and technology requirements for a space-based far-IR imaging interferometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 212-226

  Leisawitz, David ^a   Allen, Ron ^b   Baker, Charles L ^a   Benford, Dominic ^a   Bombardelli, Claudio ^c   DiPirro, Michael J ^a   Ehrenfreund, Pascale ^d   Evans, Neal ^e   Harwit, Martin ^f   Hyde, Tristram T ^a   Labeyrie, Antoine ^g   Leitner, Jesse ^a   Liu, Alice ^a   Lorenzini, Enrico ^c   Lyon, Rick G ^a   Martino, Anthony ^a   Mather, John C ^a   Menten, Karl ^h   Moseley, S Harvey ^a   Mundy, G Lee ⁱ   Nakagawa, Takao ^j   Ollendorf, Stanford ^a   Pearson, John ^k   Quinn, David A ^a   Rinehart, Stephen A ^a,l   Roman, Juan ^a   Satyapal, Shobita ^m   Silverberg, Robert F ^a   Stahl, H Philip ⁿ   Swain, Mark ^k   Swanson, Theodore D ^a   Traub, Wes ^c   Wright, Edward L ^o   Yorke, Harold W ^k   more..

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^f Obs De Haute Provence ^*  (United States)

^g Observatorie de Haute Provence   (France)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

ⁱ University of Maryland   (United States)

^j JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l Natl Res Cncl Research Associate   (United States)

^m GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Cryogenic optics; Detectors; Formation flying; Infrared; Interferometry; Submillimeter

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CRYOGENICS; DETECTORS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; MODULATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CRYOGENIC OPTICS; FORMATION FLYING; SPACE INFRARED INTERFEROMETRIC TELESCOPE (SPIRIT); SUMILLIMETER;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 19944371142     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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