• DocumentCode
    3691414
  • Title

    Compact submillimeter-wave multi-pixel local oscillator sources

  • Author

    Imran Mehdi;Jose Siles;Choonsup Lee;Robert Lin

  • Author_Institution
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91109, US
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Many key tracers of the interstellar medium and the process of star formation in the submillimeter region, such as C+, N+, CO, and H2O have been successfully observed with the Herschel HIFI instrument. HIFI also confirmed the dusty and filamentary nature of the universe with many unanswered questions regarding star formation. While HIFI was a single pixel system, the goal now is to develop and demonstrate focal plane arrays that can image extended sources in a reasonable observation time frame. This will provide a major enhancement of capability for high spectral resolution imaging of submillimeter lines with SOFIA and future suborbital and space platforms.
  • Keywords
    "Temperature measurement","Power amplifiers","Power generation","Extraterrestrial measurements","Propulsion","Instruments","Mixers"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2015 40th International Conference on
  • ISSN
    2162-2027
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2162-2035
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2015.7327567
  • Filename
    7327567
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3691414