Annual Meeting of the Four Corners Section of the APS
Volume 55, Number 9
Friday–Saturday, October 15–16, 2010;
Ogden, Utah
Session A1: Plenary Session I
10:30 AM–11:20 AM,
Friday, October 15, 2010
Room: Ballroom B
Chair: David Kieda, University of Utah
Abstract ID: BAPS.2010.4CF.A1.1
Abstract: A1.00001 : The Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer*
10:30 AM–11:20 AM
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Author:
John Elwell
(Space Dynamics Lab/Utah State University)
The Wide field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a NASA Medium
Class Explorer mission which launched in December, 2009. WISE has
performed an all-sky survey in four infrared wavelength bands.
The science payload is a 40-cm cryogenically cooled infrared
telescope with four 1024x1024 pixel infrared focal plane arrays
covering the wavelength range from 2.6 to 26 $\mu $m. The WISE
optics and focal planes are cooled to cryogenic temperatures by a
solid hydrogen cryogenic system. WISE completed its all-sky
survey in July 2010. The survey has been highly successful, with
millions of images collected, and nearly daily discoveries of
previously unknown astronomical objects, including asteroids,
brown dwarfs, and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies. The WISE
science payload was designed, built, and characterized by the
Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University.
*The WISE science payload was built under contract with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2010.4CF.A1.1
