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The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Giovanni G. Fazio  and
Peter Eisenhardt
Giovanni G. Fazio
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Peter Eisenhardt
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

Abstract

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The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is a one-meter class observatory for infrared astronomy that will be launched into high earth orbit by NASA in the late 1990’s. SIRTF’s three focal plane instruments will permit imaging and spectroscopy over most of the infrared spectrum with sensitivities of 100 to 10,000 times their predecessors. This paper briefly reviews SIRTF’s capabilities, science objectives, and current status.

Type
II. Future Missions
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 123: Observatories in Earth Orbit and Beyond , 1990 , pp. 193 - 203
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990

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