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Paper Abstract
Many studies on the formation of stars and planets require high angular and high spectral resolution in the far-infrared
regime. Even with the upcoming operation of the Herschel Space Observatory, ALMA, and JWST, angular resolutions
of better than 1 arcsec combined with high spectral resolution in the crucial far-infrared domain of 1 THz to ~ 10 THz
(300 μm to 30 μm) are still beyond observational reach. Only a far-infrared heterodyne interferometer can close this gap.
Here we present the general requirements for a FIR heterodyne interferometer in space and address a number of critical
key technologies needed for such an instrument.
Paper Details
Date Published: 18 July 2008
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 7020, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, 70201N (18 July 2008); doi: 10.1117/12.789552
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7020:
Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
William D. Duncan; Wayne S. Holland; Stafford Withington; Jonas Zmuidzinas, Editor(s)
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 7020, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, 70201N (18 July 2008); doi: 10.1117/12.789552
Show Author Affiliations
W. Wild, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Univ. of Groningen (Netherlands)
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Univ. of Groningen (Netherlands)
F. P. Helmich, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Univ. of Groningen (Netherlands)
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Univ. of Groningen (Netherlands)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7020:
Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
William D. Duncan; Wayne S. Holland; Stafford Withington; Jonas Zmuidzinas, Editor(s)
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