Abstract Edison is a radiatively-cooled, long-lived, large-aperture space observatory optimized for operation in the near- and mid-infrared. Our current design is for a ∼2.5m telescope launched as an American-European collaboration in the NASA Explorer program. The telescope equilibrates at about 40 – 60 K, depending upon location and structure, which means that the system is celestial background-limited at all wavelengths shortward of about 30 μm. Under these circumstances, the sensitivity of a telescope system depends strongly on aperture size, making Edison by far the most powerful observatory proposed for operation at near- and mid-infrared wavelengths. Here we describe part of our scientific program to study the universe at high redshifts.
The Edison infrared space observatory and the universe at high redshifts
Advances in Space Research ; 11 , 2 ; 341-344
1991-01-01
4 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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