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Infrared Surveys: A Golden Age of Exploration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

C.A. Beichman
C.A. Beichman*
Affiliation:
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

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The next decade promises an explosion of information about the infrared sky from wavelengths from 1 μm to 1,000 μm, in the continuum and in spectral lines. Measurements of objects ranging from comets in the Kuiper Belt to newly-forming galaxies will be useful for almost every branch of astrophysics. The number of catalogued infrared sources will increase a thousand-fold from the 600,000 presently known from IRAS. This talk addresses the compelling scientific interest of the infrared and describes why, years from now, astronomers will view this decade as a golden era for the exploration of the infrared sky.

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Part 1. General Sky Survey Reviews
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 179: New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys , 1998 , pp. 27 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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