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FIFI: The MPE Garching/UC Berkeley Far-Infrared Imaging Fabry-Perot InterferometerWe describe the performance characteristics of the MPE Garching/UC Berkeley Far-Infrared Imaging Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FIFI) for the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO). The spectrometer features two or three cryogenic tunable Fabry-Perot filters in series giving spectral resolution R of up to 10(exp 5) in the range of 40 microns less than lambda less than 200 microns, and an imaging 5x5 array of photoconductive detectors with variable focal plane plate scale. The instrument works at background limited sensitivity of up to 2 x 10(exp -19) W cm(exp -2) Hz(exp -1/2) per pixel per resolution element at R = 10(exp 5) on the KAO.
Document ID
19960003693
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Geis, Norbert
(California Univ. Berkeley, CA., United States)
Genzel, Reinhard
(Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Extraterrestrische Physik Garching, Germany)
Haggerty, M.
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA., United States)
Herrmann, F.
(Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Extraterrestrische Physik Garching, Germany)
Jackson, J.
(Boston Univ. Boston, MA., United States)
Madden, Suzanne C.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Nikola, T.
(Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Extraterrestrische Physik Garching, Germany)
Poglitsch, Albrecht
(Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Extraterrestrische Physik Garching, Germany)
Rumitz, M.
(Boston Univ. Boston, MA., United States)
Stacey, G. J.
(Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY., 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
Optics
Accession Number
96N13703
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG2-208
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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