Preliminary results from herschel-SPIRE flight instrument testing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6265 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lim, Tanya ^a   Swinyard, Bruce ^a   Griffin, Matthew ^b   Aramburu, Asier ^a   Baluteau, Jean Paul ^c   Bock, James ^d   Ferlet, Marc ^a   Fulton, Trevor ^e   Griffin, Douglas ^a   Guest, Steven ^a   Hargrave, Peter ^b   King, Kenneth ^a   Leeks, Sarah ^f   Naylor, David ^e   Polehampton, Edward ^a   Rizzo, Davide ^g   Sawyer, Eric ^a   Schulz, Bernhard ^h   Sidher, Sunil ^a   Spencer, Locke ^e   Smith, David ^a   Nguen, Hien Trong ^d   Valtchanov, Ivan ^f   Waskett, Tim ^b   Woodcraft, Adam ^b   more..

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^f EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolometer; Far Infrared; Herschel; Instrumentation; Submillimetre

Indexed keywords

FAR INFRARED RADIATION; FLIGHT MODELS; HERSCHEL SPACE OBSERVATORY; IMAGING FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER; INSTRUMENTATION;

BOLOMETERS; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTOMETERS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; SPECTROMETERS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

EQUIPMENT TESTING;

EID: 33749007158     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672752     Document Type: Conference Paper

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