SOFIA Overview and science capabilities for Cycle 1

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Jan 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012aas...21911602y&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #116.02

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, is a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center. It is a highly modified Boeing 747SP aircraft housing a 2.7-meter diameter telescope. Operating at altitudes as high as 14 km (45,000 ft.), SOFIA makes possible observations in otherwise obscured parts of the infrared. SOFIA will be offering approximately 200 hours of openly competed observing time to the world-wide astronomical community in an upcoming Call for Proposals. Four scientific instruments will be offered: FLITECAM, a near infrared camera and spectrometer; FORCAST, a mid-infrared camera; GREAT, a submillimeter heterodyne spectrometer; and HIPO, an visible light occultation photometer. This talk describes the call for proposals and the offered capabilities.

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