Far-Infrared Spectrophotometer For Astronomical Observations

Harvey Moseley; Robert F. Silverberg

doi:10.1117/12.931953

27 July 1981 Far-Infrared Spectrophotometer For Astronomical Observations

Harvey Moseley, Robert F. Silverberg

Proceedings Volume 0280, Infrared Astronomy: Scientific/Military Thrusts and Instrumentation; (1981) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.931953
Event: 1981 Technical Symposium East, 1981, Washington, D.C., United States

Abstract

We have built a liquid-helium-cooled far infrared spectrophotometer and used it to make low resolution observations of the continua of several kinds of astronomical objects using the Kuiper Airborne Observatory. This instrument fills a gap in both sensitivity to continuum sources and spectral resolution between the broadband photometers with λ/Δ/λ ≈ 1 and spectrometers with λ/Δ/λ > 50 . While designed primarily to study planetary nebulae, the instrument permits study of the shape of the continua of many weak sources which cannot easily be observed with high resolution systems.

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Harvey Moseley and Robert F. Silverberg "Far-Infrared Spectrophotometer For Astronomical Observations", Proc. SPIE 0280, Infrared Astronomy: Scientific/Military Thrusts and Instrumentation, (27 July 1981); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.931953

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