Principles Of Stray Light Suppression And Conceptual Application To The Design Of The Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment For NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer.

Dennis Charles Evans

doi:10.1117/12.934947

4 October 1983 Principles Of Stray Light Suppression And Conceptual Application To The Design Of The Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment For NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer.

Dennis Charles Evans

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Proceedings Volume 0384, Generation, Measurement and Control of Stray Radiation III; (1983) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934947
Event: 1983 Los Angeles Technical Symposium, 1983, Los Angeles, United States

Abstract

The Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE) is a 10 band filter photometer that will operate at superfluid helium temperatures. Diffuse galactic and extragalactic infrared radiation in the 1-300 micrometer wavelength region will be measured by the instrument. Polarization measurements will be made for 3 bands in the 1-4 micrometer spectral region. The main sources of unwanted radiation are the sun, earth, thermal radiation from an external sun shield, the moon, the brighter planets and stars, and sky light itself from outside the instrument's nominal one degree square field of view. The system level engineering concepts and the principles of stray light suppression that resulted in the instrument design are presented.

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Dennis Charles Evans "Principles Of Stray Light Suppression And Conceptual Application To The Design Of The Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment For NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer.", Proc. SPIE 0384, Generation, Measurement and Control of Stray Radiation III, (4 October 1983); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934947

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