Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Aug 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998spie.3354.1139b&link_type=abstract
Proc. SPIE Vol. 3354, p. 1139-1149, Infrared Astronomical Instrumentation, Albert M. Fowler; Ed.
Computer Science
Performance
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Scientific paper
We describe the design and performance of the near IR telescope experiment (NITE), a rocket-borne instrument designed to search for IR emission from baryonic dark matter in the halos of nearby edge-on spiral galaxies. A 256 X 256 InSb array at the focus of a 16.5 cm liquid-helium- cooled telescope achieves near-background-limited sensitivity in a 3.5-5.5 micrometers waveband where the local foreground from zodiacal emission is at a minimum. This experiment represents the first scientific application of a low-background IR InSb array, a precursor to the InSb arrays intended for SIRTF, in a space-borne observation. We describe the flight performance of the instrument and preliminary scientific result from an observation of NGC 4565.
Bock James Joseph
Fazio Giovanni G.
Forrest William John
Kawada Mitsunobu
Lange Andrew E.
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