Development and future use of the echelon-cross-echelle spectrograph on SOFIA

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6269 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Richter, Matthew J ^a   Lacy, John H ^b   Jaffe, Daniel T ^b   Mar, Douglas J ^b   Goertz, John ^b   Möller, William M ^b   Strong, Shadrian ^b   Greathouse, Thomas K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomical instruments; Mid IR; SOFIA; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS; INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM; SOFIA;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 33749366207     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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