Understanding the Herschel-SPIRE bolometers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Woodcraft, Adam L ^a,b   Nguyen, Hien ^c   Bock, James ^c   Griffin, Matthew ^d   Schulz, Bernhard ^e   Sibthorpe, Bruce ^b   Swinyard, Bruce ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bolometers; Characterisation; Detectors; Herschel; Observatory; Satellite; SPIRE; Sub mm

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; BOLOMETERS; GERMANIUM; INFRARED DETECTORS; INSTRUMENTS; OBSERVATORIES; READOUT SYSTEMS; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; TOWERS;

CHARACTERISATION; DETECTORS; HERSCHEL; HERSCHEL SPACE OBSERVATORY; IDEAL MODEL; OBSERVATORY; SATELLITE; SIMPLE MODELING; SPIRE; SUB-MILLIMETER; SUB-MM;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 52249120558     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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