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EAS Publications Series
Volume 4, 2002
Infrared and Submillimeter Space Astronomy: An International Colloquium to Honor the Memory of Guy Serra
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| Page(s) | 239 - 239 | |
| Section | Session IV: Instruments and Missions | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:2002082 | |
| Published online | 25 September 2002 | |
M. Giard, J.P. Bernard, A. Klotz and I. Ristorcelli (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 4 (2002) 239
SOFIA and its facility Far Infrared Camera HAWC
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The University of Chicago Yerkes Observatory,
373, West Geneva Street, Williams Bay, WI 53191, USA
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USRA-SOFIA, Moffet Field, CA 94035-1000, USA
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Center for Imaging Science, Rochester
Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623-5603, USA
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is a 2.5 m telescope which will fly in a Boeing 747SP, commencing operation in late summer 2004. SOFIA is a joint American/German project and for most of this decade it will be the largest far-infrared telescope. SOFIA will have a suite of instruments available to the astronomical community, including the High-resolution Airborne Wide-band Camera (HAWC) - its facility far-infrared camera.
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