Herschel-SPIRE: Design, performance, and scientific capabilities

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6265 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Griffin, Matthew ^a   Abergel, Alain ^b   Ade, Peter ^a   André, Philippe ^c   Baluteau, Jean Paul ^d   Bock, James ^e   Franceschini, Alberto ^f   Gear, Walter ^a   Glenn, Jason ^g   Griffin, Douglas ^h   King, Ken ^h   Lellouch, Emmanuel ⁱ   Naylor, David ^j   Olofsson, Göran ^k   Perez Fournon, Ismael ^l   Rowan Robinson, Michael ^m   Saraceno, Paolo ⁿ   Sawyer, Eric ^h   Smith, Alan ^o   Swinyard, Bruce ⁱ   Vigroux, Laurent ^p   Wright, Gillian ^q   more..

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE MARSEILLE   (France)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^k STOCKHOLM OBSERVATORY   (Sweden)

^l INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^m IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ INAF   (Italy)

^o UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^p INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^q Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Far Infrared; Herschel; Instrumentation; Submillimetre

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; CAMERAS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OBSERVATORIES; PHOTOMETRY; SPECTROMETERS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

IMAGING PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRIC IMAGING RECEIVER; SPECTRAL BANDS; SUBMILLIMETRE CAMERA;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33749014153     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670783     Document Type: Conference Paper

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