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AIRES: An Airborne Infra-Red Echelle Spectrometer for SOFIASOFIA will enable astronomical observations with unprecedented angular resolution at infrared wavelengths obscured from the ground. To help open this new chapter in the exploration of the infrared universe, we are building AIRES, an Airborne Infra-Red Echelle Spectrometer. AIRES will be operated as a first generation, general purpose facility instrument by USRA, NASA's prime contractor for SOFIA. AIRES is a long slit spectrograph operating from 17 - 210 microns. In high resolution mode the spectral resolving power is approx. 10(exp 6) microns/A or approx. 10(exp 4) at 100 microns. Unfortunately, since the conference, a low resolution mode with resolving power about 100 times lower has been deleted due to budgetary constraints. AIRES includes a slit viewing camera which operates in broad bands at 18 and 25 microns.
Document ID
20000062468
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Dotson, Jessie J. (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Inst. Moffett Field, CA United States)
Erickson, Edwin F. (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States)
Haas, Michael R. (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States)
Colgan, Sean W. J. (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States)
Simpson, Janet P. (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States)
Telesco, Charles M. (Florida Univ. FL United States)
Pina, Robert K. (Florida Univ. FL United States)
Wolf, Juergen (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt Berlin, Germany)
Young, Erick T. (Arizona Univ. AZ United States)
Date Acquired
September 7, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1999
Subject Category
Instrumentation And Photography
Meeting Information
Meeting: Thermal
Location: Houston, TX
Country: United States
Start Date: April 28, 1999
End Date: April 30, 1999
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NCC2-647
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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