Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aas...19910216s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 199th AAS Meeting, #102.16; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.1466
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The SOFIA airborne observatory will provide a high spatial resolution, low background telescope for far-infrared astrophysical investigations. Selected as a PI instrument for SOFIA, SAFIRE is an imaging Fabry-Perot spectrograph covering 100μ m-655μ m, with spectral resolving power of ~1500 (200km/s). This resolution is well matched to extragalactic emission lines and yields the greatest sensitivity for line detection. SAFIRE will make important scientific contributions to the study of the powering of ULIRGs and AGN, the role of Cii cooling in extragalactic star formation, the evolution of matter in the early Universe, and the energetics of the Galactic center. SAFIRE will employ a two-dimensional pop-up bolometer array in a 16x32 format to provide background-limited imaging spectrometry. Superconducting transition edge bolometers and SQUID amplifiers have been developed for these detectors.
Benford Dominic J.
Irwin Kent D.
Moseley Samuel Harvey
Pajot François
Shafer Richard A.
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