SIRTF - CAPABILITIES FOR THE STUDY OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS

Authors
CRUIKSHANK DP WERNER MW BACKMAN DE
Citation
Dp. Cruikshank et al., SIRTF - CAPABILITIES FOR THE STUDY OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS, Astrophysics and space science, 212(1-2), 1994, pp. 407-415
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Astrophysics and space science → ACNP
ISSN journal
0004640X
Volume
212
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
407 - 415
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-640X(1994)212:1-2<407:S-CFTS>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
The Space Infrared Telescope Facility, to be launched into a near-Eart h heliocentric orbit in the year 2001, will open broad new vistas for the study, at infrared wavelengths, of the objects in the Solar System and planetary systems around other stars. This paper focuses on the s tudy of Kuiper-belt comets and circumstellar planetary debris disks.