Arrays: The heart and soul of SIRTF

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Mar 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994exa.....3..109w&link_type=abstract

Experimental Astronomy, vol. 3, no. 1-4, p. 109-116

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Arrays, Atlas Launch Vehicles, Cryogenic Cooling, Infrared Astronomy, Infrared Detectors, Space Infrared Telescope Facility, Spaceborne Astronomy, Astronomical Photometry, Astronomical Spectroscopy, Infrared Spectroscopy, Mission Planning, Space Missions

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This pape describes the status of NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) program. SIRTF will be a cryogenically cooled observatory for infrared astronomy from space and is planned for launch early in the next decade. It will be the first cryogenic space observatory to make extensive use of the powerful infrared detector array technology discussed at this conference. We summarize a newly developed SIRTF mission concept and show how the availability of detector arrays has shaped the scientific rationale for SIRTF, and how the arrays themselves have become part of the definition of the SIRTF mission.

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