The NASA spitzer space telescope

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Gehrz, R D ^a   Roellig, T L ^b   Werner, M W ^c   Fazio, G G ^d   Houck, J R ^e   Low, F J ^f   Rieke, G H ^f   Soifer, B T ^g   Levine, D A ^g   Romana, E A ^c,h  

^a University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL EVOLUTION; HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE; INFRARED ASTRONOMY;

GALAXIES; ORBITS; PLANETS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMY; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROCLIMATE; REVIEW; SPACE FLIGHT; UNITED STATES;

ASTRONOMY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; SPACE FLIGHT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 34047153737     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2431313     Document Type: Article

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