AAS Meeting #193 - Austin, Texas, January 1999
Session 12. IR - UV New Missions
Display, Wednesday, January 6, 1999, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

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[12.02] Submillimeter and Far Infrared Experiment for SOFIA (SAFIRE)

R.A. Shafer, S.H. Moseley (NASA/GSFC), P. Ade (QMWC), G. Bjoraker, E. Dwek (NASA/GSFC), E. Grossman, K. Irwin (NIST/Boulder), D. Jennings, A. Kutyrev, J. C. Mather, R. F. Mushotzky (NASA/GSFC), D. Neufeld (JHU), F. Pajot (IAS), T. Phillips (CalTech), G. Stacey (Cornell U.)

SAFIRE is a versatile imaging Fabry-Perot spectrograph covering 145 < \lambda 655 \mum, with spectral resolving powers ranging over 5--104. Selected as a ``PI'' instrument for the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astonomy (SOFIA), SAFIRE will apply two dimensional pop-up bolometer arrays to provide background limited imaging spectrometry. We describe the instrument design and its application to a range of astrophysical investigations.


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