Wire, SOFIA and SIRTF

Details Wire, SOFIA and SIRTF Wire, SOFIA and SIRTF

Apr 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998exdu.work..219w&link_type=abstract

Exozodiacal Dust Workshop, p. 219

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Space Infrared Telescope Facility, Infrared Astronomy, Sofia (Airborne Observatory), Infrared Telescopes, Infrared Interferometers, Space Missions, Spaceborne Telescopes, Spectrographs, Infrared Imagery, Astronomical Interferometry, Nasa Space Programs, Space Debris, Zodiacal Dust, Space Exploration, Cameras, Photometers

Scientific paper

WIRE, SOFIA and SIRTF are three planned NASA missions for infrared astronomy. Each will make significant contributions to the study of exo-zodiacal dust, planetary debris disks, and/or the zodiacal material within our own solar system. These missions and their measurement and scientific capabilities are synopsized. The principal contribution of these missions to this field of study will be to establish and strengthen its intellectual foundations rather than to pinpoint specific targets for planetary searches. This is consistent with their relatively near-term availability. Moreover, this intellectual understanding can assure that subsequent missions approach this subject from a sound scientific perspective which will yield valuable results independent of the success of a particular planet finding strategy. Each of these missions - most urgently WIRE with its Fall, 1998 launch date - would make good use of a list of candidate target stars for exo-zodiacal/planet-finding studies. The preparation of such a list was one of the recommendations of the exo-zodiacal workshop.

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