Development of a Liquid-Helium Cooled Rocketborne Spectrometer,

Abstract

An infrared spectrometer used to obtain atmospheric emission spectra from a rocket at altitudes between 45 and 200 km in the ICECAP Auroral Measurements Program is described. The instrument continuously scanned the 6.75-23.2 micrometers spectral region at the rate of 2 scans per second. The instrument resolution of the spectrometer, which employed a circular-variable interference filter (CVF), ranged from 3 to 4 percent.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA017207

Entities

People

  • Clair L. Wyatt
  • Doran J. Baker

Organizations

  • Utah State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Emission
  • Emission Spectra
  • Infrared Spectrometers
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Micrometers
  • Rocketborne
  • Spectra
  • Spectrometers

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Spectroscopy.