Observations of Jupiter with a Hadamard Transform Spectrometer.

Abstract

During the past two years, Cornell University has prepared for observations of Jupiter to determine spectral differences at different latitudes. A Hadamard transform spectrometer was modified to make it capable of simultaneously observing regions at 15 different latitudes, at a spectral resolving power of 1/cm. 255 different spectral elements are simultaneously observed so that a spectral coverage approximately 2 micrometers is obtained for a single grating setting. It was initially proposed to obtain spectra across the entire 8 micrometer to 13 micrometer region, using this instrument. General advances in data reduction, in error analysis, and in atmospheric studies have been made. Three papers that appear as appendices to this report described much of the work accomplished in these domains.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA025273

Entities

People

  • Martin Harwit

Organizations

  • Cornell University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Reduction
  • Error Analysis
  • Errors
  • Grids
  • Instrumentation
  • Latitude
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Micrometers
  • Observation
  • Spectra
  • Spectrometers
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Astronomy/Astrophysics
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.