The SIRTF Mission
The SIRTF Mission
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DOI：
10.1117/12.951935
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发表时间：
1986-05
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通讯作者：
M. Werner;James P. Murphy;F. Witteborn;C. Wiltsee
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M. Werner;James P. Murphy;F. Witteborn;C. Wiltsee
本文介绍了空间红外望远镜设施的科学技术背景和前景。SIRTF是一个低温冷却的一米级太空望远镜，将由美国宇航局在20世纪90年代中期作为红外天文观测站运行。SIRTF将建立在IRAS的科学和技术成功的基础上，但将在所有重要的科学领域-波长覆盖，光谱和空间分辨率以及灵敏度-拥有更大的能力。SIRTF将提供即使是最微弱的IRAS源的详细研究，研究已知天体物理现象的重要新能力，以及对宇宙性质做出新的和意想不到的发现的潜力。SIRTF将是一个寿命较长的观测站，并将支持一个国际科学界可以利用的有力的一般调查员方案。长寿命SIRTF使命已经过1984年中期选定的SIRTF科学工作组的深入审查。在本文中，我们提出了审查过程的结果，并描述了SIRTF计划，因为它是现在设想的。将特别侧重于空间遥感任务的轨道选择、空间遥感任务的科学性能要求以及空间遥感任务设施和使命的基线设计概念。
This paper describes the scientific and technical background and prospects for the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF). SIRTF is a cryogenically-cooled, one meter-class space telescope which will be operated by NASA as an observatory for infrared astronomy, in the mid-1990's. SIRTF will build on the scientific and technical success of IRAS, but will have greater capabilities in all important scientific areas - wavelength coverage, spectral and spatial resolution, and sensitivity. SIRTF will provide detailed studies of even the faintest IRAS sources, important new capabilities for the study of known astrophysical phenomena, and the potential to make new and unexpected discoveries about the nature of the Universe. SIRTF will be a long-life observatory and will support a vigorous general investigator program accessible to the international scientific community. The long-life SIRTF mission has undergone intensive review by the SIRTF Science Working Group, which was selected in mid-1984. In this paper, we present the outcome of that review process and describe the SIRTF program as it is now envisioned. Particular emphasis will be placed on the choice of orbit for SIRTF, the SIRTF scientific performance requirements and the baseline design concept for the SIRTF facility and mission.