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Arrays: The heart and soul of SIRTFThis pape describes the status of NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) program. SIRTF will be a cryogenically cooled observatory for infrared astronomy from space and is planned for launch early in the next decade. It will be the first cryogenic space observatory to make extensive use of the powerful infrared detector array technology discussed at this conference. We summarize a newly developed SIRTF mission concept and show how the availability of detector arrays has shaped the scientific rationale for SIRTF, and how the arrays themselves have become part of the definition of the SIRTF mission.
Document ID
19950031312
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Werner, Michael W.
(Jet Propulsion Lab. Cal. Tech., Pasadena, CA, US, United States)
Eisenhardt, Peter R.
(Jet Propulsion Lab. Cal. Tech., Pasadena, CA, US, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1994
Publication Information
Publication: Experimental Astronomy
Volume: 3
Issue: 1-4
ISSN: 0922-6435
Subject Category
Astronomy
Accession Number
95A62911
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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