SuperCam: A 64 pixel heterodyne imaging spectrometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Groppi, Christopher ^a   Walker, Christopher ^a   Kulesa, Craig ^a   Golish, Dathon ^a   Kloosterman, Jenna ^a   Pütz, Patrick ^b   Weinreb, Sander ^c,d   Kuiper, Thomas ^c   Kooi, Jacob ^d   Jones, Glenn ^d   Bardin, Joseph ^d   Mani, Hamdi ^d   Lichtenberger, Arthur ^e   Cecil, Thomas ^e   Hedden, Abigail ^f   Narayanan, Gopal ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^f HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterodyne imaging arrays; Molecular spectroscopy; Submillimeter

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CLOUDS; COPYING; GALAXIES; INSTRUMENTS; PIXELS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

ATMOSPHERIC WINDOWS; FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS; GALACTIC PLANE SURVEY; HETERODYNE IMAGING; HETERODYNE IMAGING ARRAYS; IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; MOLECULAR CLOUDS; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; PLANET FORMATION; SUBMILLIMETER; VELOCITY RESOLUTION;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 52249111585     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.790284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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