Cryogenic detectors for infrared astronomy: the Single Aperture Far-InfraRed (SAFIR) Observatory

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Mar 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004nimpa.520..379b&link_type=abstract

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 520, Issue 1-3, p. 379-383.

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Space Telescope, Far-Infrared, Bolometer Array, Cryogenic Detectors

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The development of a large, far-infrared telescope in space has taken on a new urgency with breakthroughs in detector technology and recognition of the fundamental importance of the far-infrared spectral region to questions ranging from cosmology to our own Solar system. The Single Aperture Far-InfraRed (SAFIR) Observatory is 10m-class far-infrared observatory that would begin development later in this decade to meet these needs. SAFIR's science goals are driven by the fact that youngest stages of almost all phenomena in the universe are shrouded in absorption by and emission from cool dust that emits strongly in the far-infrared, 20μm-1mm. Its operating temperature (4K) and instrument complement would be optimized to reach the natural sky confusion limit in the far-infrared with diffraction-limited performance down to at least the atmospheric cutoff at 40μm. This would provide a point source sensitivity improvement of several orders of magnitude over that of SIRTF. In order to achieve this, large arrays of detectors with NEPs ranging from a few to a hundred zeptowatts/sqrt(Hz) are needed. Very low temperature superconducting transition edge sensors and far-infrared ``photon counting'' detectors are critical technologies requiring development for the SAFIR mission.

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