ALICE: The ultraviolet imaging spectrograph aboard the New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 140, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 155-187

  Stern, S Alan ^a   Slater, David C ^b   Scherrer, John ^b   Stone, John ^b   Dirks, Greg ^b   Versteeg, Maarten ^b   Davis, Michael ^b   Gladstone, G Randall ^b   Parker, Joel W ^a   Young, Leslie A ^a   Siegmund, Oswald H W ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Sensor Sciences LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Instrumentation; Kuiper belt; NASA missions; Pluto; Spectroscopy; Ultraviolet

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; IMAGE STORAGE TUBES; INSTRUMENTS; NASA; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROGRAPHS; TELESCOPES;

INSTRUMENTATION; KUIPER BELT; NASA MISSIONS; PLUTO; ULTRAVIOLET;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 57649193149     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-008-9407-3     Document Type: Article

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