Herschel-SPIRE: Design, ground test results, and predicted performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7010, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Griffin, Matt ^a   Swinyard, Bruce ^b   Vigroux, Laurent ^c   Abergel, Alain ^d   Ade, Peter ^a   André, Philippe ^e   Baluteau, Jean Paul ^f   Bock, James ^g   Franceschini, Alberto ^h   Gear, Walter ^a   Glenn, Jason ⁱ   Huang, Maohai ^j   Griffin, Douglas ^b   King, Ken ^b   Lellouch, Emmanuel ^k   Naylor, David ^l   Oliver, Seb ^m   Olofsson, Göran ⁿ   Perez Fournon, Ismael ^o   Page, Mat ^p   Rowan Robinson, Michael ^q   Saraceno, Paolo ^r   Sawyer, Eric ^b   Wright, Gillian ^s   Zavagno, Annie ^f   Abreu, Asier ^b   Bendo, George ^q   Dowell, Alan ^b   Dowell, Darren ^g   Ferlet, Marc ^b   Fulton, Trevor ^t   Hargrave, Peter ^a   Laurent, Glenn ⁱ   Leeks, Sarah ^b,u   Lim, Tanya ^b   Lu, Nanyao ^u   Nguyen, Hien ^g   Pearce, Alan ^b   Polehampton, Edward ^b,l   Rizzo, Davide ^q   Schulz, Bernhard ^u   Sidher, Sunil ^b   Smith, Dave ^b   Spencer, Locke ^l   Valtchanov, Ivan ^v   Woodcraft, Adam ^s   Xu, Kevin ^u   Zhang, Lijun ^u   more..

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^f OBSERVATOIRE DE MARSEILLE   (France)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^j CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^k OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^l UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^m UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ STOCKHOLM OBSERVATORY   (Sweden)

^o INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^p UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^q IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^r INAF   (Italy)

^s Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

^t BLUE SKY SPECTROSCOPY   (Canada)

^u CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^v EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

more..

Author keywords

Far infrared; Herschel; Instrumentation; Submillimetre

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR FIELD OF VIEWS; DESIGN FEATURES; FAR INFRARED; FIELD OF VIEWS; GROUND TESTS; HERSCHEL; IMAGING FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER; IN-FLIGHT PERFORMANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; PREDICTED PERFORMANCE; SPECTRAL AND PHOTOMETRIC IMAGING RECEIVERS; SUBMILLIMETRE; SYSTEM LEVELS;

CAMERAS; INSTRUMENT TESTING; ION BEAMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOMETRY; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; TOWERS;

SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 67651113088     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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