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The Yerkes Observatory 60-channel far infrared camera for the Kuiper Airborne ObservatoryThe Yerkes Observatory Far Infrared Camera employs a two-dimensional, 60-detector array of (3)He-cooled silicon bolometers for broadband imaging in the spectral range of 40 to 240 microns. Four interchangeable filters have effective wavelengths of 60, 100, 160, and 200 microns. Three interchangeable lens sets give pixel sizes of 17, 27, and 45 in. Signals are processed through nitrogen-temperature JFET source-follower amplifiers, warm preamplifiers, and digital signal processors, and the system is controlled through a graphical user interface on a Macintosh computer. The camera has been used to image a wide variety of galactic and extragalactic far infrared sources.
Document ID
19960003689
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Harper, D. AL, Jr.
(Chicago Univ. Chicago, IL, United States)
Cole, David M.
(Chicago Univ. Chicago, IL, United States)
Loewenstein, Robert F.
(Chicago Univ. Chicago, IL, United States)
Mcmahon, T.
(Chicago Univ. Chicago, IL, United States)
Pernic, R. J.
(Chicago Univ. Chicago, IL, United States)
Wirth, C.
(Chicago Univ. Chicago, IL, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1995
Publication Information
Publication: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Airborne Astronomy Symposium on the Galactic Ecosystem: From Gas to Stars to Dust, Volume 73
Subject Category
Instrumentation And Photography
Accession Number
96N13699
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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