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Submillimeter Space Telescope Project "Submillimetron"

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2002

M. Giard ,
J.P. Bernard ,
A. Klotz ,
I. Ristorcelli ,
V. D. Gromov ,
N. S. Kardashev  and
L. S. Kuzmin
V. D. Gromov*
Affiliation:
Astro Space Center of the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117997 Moscow, Russia Chalmers University of Technology, Microtechnology Centre, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
N. S. Kardashev
Affiliation:
Astro Space Center of the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117997 Moscow, Russia
L. S. Kuzmin
Affiliation:
Chalmers University of Technology, Microtechnology Centre, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
*
[email protected][email protected]
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Abstract

The Submillimetron is the international project of the spacetelescope for full sky survey in submillimeter region 0.15-1.5 mmusing facilities of the Russian segment of the InternationalSpace Station (ISS). A free flying module for the project isunder development in corporation Energia. Periodic docking ofthe module to the ISS gives possibility to combine low cost withreliability, refilling, repairment and maintenance. The conceptof the telescope combines a 0.6 m mirror cooled to liquid heliumtemperature with a novel type of microbolometers arrays developedat Chalmers University (Sweden). This combination gives uniquepossibility to realize background limited sensitivity about10-18 W/Hz-1/2 in the spectral minimum of theextraterrestrial background near frequency 1 THz between peaks ofgalactic dust emission and CMB. The angular resolution of theinstrument is about 1 arcmin, field of view ~1°.

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Research Article
Information
European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 4: Infrared and Submillimeter Space Astronomy: An International Colloquium to Honor the Memory of Guy Serra , 2002 , pp. 255
Copyright
© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2002

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