FAR-INFRARED IMAGING, POLARIMETRY, AND SPECTROPHOTOMETRY ON THE INFRARED SPACE-OBSERVATORY

Authors
LEMKE D GARZON F GEMUND HP GROZINGER U HEINRICHSEN I KLAAS U KRATSCHMER W KREYSA E LUTZOWWENTZKY P SCHUBERT J WELLS M WOLF J
Citation
D. Lemke et al., FAR-INFRARED IMAGING, POLARIMETRY, AND SPECTROPHOTOMETRY ON THE INFRARED SPACE-OBSERVATORY, Optical engineering, 33(1), 1994, pp. 20-25
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optical engineering → ACNP
ISSN journal
00913286
Volume
33
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
20 - 25
Database
ISI
SICI code
0091-3286(1994)33:1<20:FIPASO>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
The infrared Space Observatory (ISO) photometer is one of four instrum ents on board the European Space Agency ISO satellite scheduled for la unch in September 1995. It covers the wavelength range 2.5 to 240 mum with wide and narrow spectral bands. Diffraction-limited observations as well as wide-beam measurements of faint extended sources are possib le. Polarimetric observations can be made over the whole wavelength ra nge. The minimal detectable flux is approximately 10 mJy. The astronom ical areas to be addressed range from solar system objects to cosmolog y.