Rocket-borne instrument to search for infrared emission from baryonic dark matter in galactic halos

被引：4

作者：

Bock, JJ ^{[1
]}

Kawada, M ^{[1
]}

Lange, AE ^{[1
]}

Matsumoto, T ^{[1
]}

Uemizu, K ^{[1
]}

Watabe, T ^{[1
]}

Yost, SA ^{[1
]}

Fazio, GG ^{[1
]}

Forrest, WJ ^{[1
]}

Pipher, JL ^{[1
]}

Price, SD ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA

来源：

INFRARED ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION, PTS 1-2 | 1998年 / 3354卷

关键词：

infrared astronomy; InSb; galactic halos; baryonic matter;

D O I：

10.1117/12.317239

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We describe the design and performance of the Near Infrared Telescope Experiment (NITE), a rocket-borne instrument designed to search for infrared emission from baryonic dark matter in the halos of nearby edge-on spiral galaxies. A 256 x 256 InSb array at the focus of a 16.5 cm liquid-helium-cooled telescope achieves near-background-limited sensitivity in a 3.5 - 5.5 mu m waveband where the local foreground from zodiacal emission is at a minimum. This experiment represents the first scientific application of a low-background infrared InSb array, a precursor to the InSb arrays intended for SIRTF, in a spaceborne observation. We describe the night performance of the instrument and preliminary scientific results from an observation of NGC 4565.

引用

页码：1139 / 1149

页数：11