Thermal illuminators for far-infrared and submillimeter astronomical instruments

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3208-3217

  Pisano, Giampaolo ^a   Hargrave, Peter ^a   Griffin, Matthew ^a   Collins, Patrick ^a   Beeman, Jeffrey ^b   Hermoso, Raul ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BOLOMETERS; CALIBRATION; HEAT RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITES; SPECIFIC HEAT;

ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS; POWER DISSIPATION; SPECTRAL AND PHOTOMETRIC IMAGING RECEIVER (SPIRE); THERMAL ILLUMINATORS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 20544478207     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.003208     Document Type: Article

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