FIFI LS getting ready to fly aboard SOFIA

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Klein, R ^a   Poglitsch, A ^b   Raab, W ^b   Geis, N ^b   Hamidouche, M ^c   Looney, L W ^d   Honle R ^b   Nishikida, K ^a   Genzel, R ^b   Henning, Th K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c USRA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airborne Instrumentation; Far Infrared; FIFI LS; Integral Field Spectroscopy; SOFIA

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION; FAR-INFRARED; FIFI LS; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; SOFIA;

ASTRONOMY; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 78149274103     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856530     Document Type: Conference Paper

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