JANUS: Exploring the high redshift universe

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Burrows, D N ^a   Roming, P W A ^b   Fox, D B ^a   Herter, T L ^c   Falcone, A ^a   Bilen S ^d   Nousek, J A ^a   Kennea, J A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Astronomy Department ^*  (United States)

^d The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coded aperture; GRB; Infrared; JANUS; Spectroscopy; X ray

Indexed keywords

AFTERGLOW EMISSION; BACKGROUND LIGHT; CODED APERTURES; EARLY UNIVERSE; EXPLORER MISSIONS; GALAXY FORMATIONS; GAMMA-RAY BURSTS; GRB; GROUND BASED; HIGH REDSHIFT UNIVERSE; HIGH-REDSHIFT; INFRARED; JANUS; LOW RESOLUTION; MISSION DESIGN; NEAR-IR; RED SHIFT; REIONIZATION; STAR FORMATIONS;

COSMOLOGY; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT SOURCES; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE TELESCOPES; STARS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77957876613     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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