History of infrared telescopes and astronomy

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Aug 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009exa....25..125r&link_type=abstract

Experimental Astronomy, Volume 25, Issue 1-3, pp. 125-141

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Infrared Astronomy, History Of Astronomy

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The first attempts to measure the infrared outputs of stars preceded by nearly a century the permanent establishment of infrared astronomy as an important aspect of the field. There were a number of false starts in that century, significant efforts that had little impact on the astronomical community at large. Why did these efforts fizzle out? What was different in the start that did not fizzle, in the 1960s? I suggest that the most important advances were the success of radio astronomy in demonstrating interesting phenomena outside of the optical regime, and the establishment virtually simultaneously in the United States of a number of research groups that could support each other and compete against one another in their approach to infrared astronomy.

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