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First – Far Infrared and Submillimetre Space Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

U. O. Frisk
U. O. Frisk*
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Division, Space Science Department of ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

Abstract

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First is an element of the ESA long term science program. Currently in a detailed study phase it is foreseen as a large (4.5–8 m) diameter passively cooled telescope equipped with a combination of photometer/camera and very high resolution spectrometers. The spectrometers will utilize both direct detection and heterodyne techniques to cover the wavelength band 85–600 micron. The photometers will have both bolometer and photoconductor detector arrays. FIRST is foreseen to be launched shortly after the year 2000 and will be operated as a facility open to the wide scientific community.

Type
II. Future Missions
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 123: Observatories in Earth Orbit and Beyond , 1990 , pp. 223 - 230
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990