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Submillimeter Space Telescope Project "Submillimetron"

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2002

M. Giard ,
J.P. Bernard ,
A. Klotz ,
I. Ristorcelli ,
V. D. Gromov ,
N. S. Kardashev  and
L. S. Kuzmin
V. D. Gromov*
Affiliation:
Astro Space Center of the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117997 Moscow, Russia Chalmers University of Technology, Microtechnology Centre, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
N. S. Kardashev
Affiliation:
Astro Space Center of the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117997 Moscow, Russia
L. S. Kuzmin
Affiliation:
Chalmers University of Technology, Microtechnology Centre, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
*
gro@asc.rssi.ruf4agro@fy.chalmers.se
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Abstract

The Submillimetron is the international project of the space telescope for full sky survey in submillimeter region 0.15-1.5 mm using facilities of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). A free flying module for the project is under development in corporation Energia. Periodic docking of the module to the ISS gives possibility to combine low cost with reliability, refilling, repairment and maintenance. The concept of the telescope combines a 0.6 m mirror cooled to liquid helium temperature with a novel type of microbolometers arrays developed at Chalmers University (Sweden). This combination gives unique possibility to realize background limited sensitivity about 10-18 W/Hz-1/2 in the spectral minimum of the extraterrestrial background near frequency 1 THz between peaks of galactic dust emission and CMB. The angular resolution of the instrument is about 1 arcmin, field of view ~1°.

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Research Article
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European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 4: Infrared and Submillimeter Space Astronomy: An International Colloquium to Honor the Memory of Guy Serra , 2002 , pp. 255
Copyright
© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2002

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