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<strong>Infrared</strong> tr<strong>an</strong>smission windows Léna, Lebrun, & Mignard
J, H, K, L windows J H K L Glass
Page 1 and 2: Infrared astronomy: an introduction
Page 3 and 4: Western diamondback rattlesnake Aar
Page 5 and 6: Rattlesnake nemesis California grou
Page 7 and 8: But clever too ... Ground squirrel
Page 9 and 10: Human discovery of the infrared Her
Page 11 and 12: Brief history of early infrared ast
Page 13 and 14: Planck’s Law for blackbody radiat
Page 15 and 16: Planck’s Law: logarithmic blackbo
Page 17 and 18: Key features of Planck’s Law (II)
Page 19 and 20: Orion: the nearest major stellar nu
Page 21 and 22: Infrared penetrates dust extinction
Page 23 and 24: Reducing the effects of extinction
Page 25 and 26: Star formation in the “Pillars of
Page 27 and 28: Ices in and around protostars
Page 29 and 30: Accretion, outflow, and feedback HH
Page 31 and 32: The evolution of the Universe
Page 33 and 34: Redshifted diagnostics NIR MIR
Page 35 and 36: Boosting sensitivity via gravitatio
Page 37: Opening up the electromagnetic spec
Page 42 and 43: M, N, Q windows M N Q Glass
Page 44 and 45: Sources of background flux Several
Page 46 and 47: Gegenschein Yuri Beletsky / ESO
Page 48 and 49: Gemini-N
Page 50 and 51: Near-infrared OH airglow Ennico / C
Page 52 and 53: Cosmic microwave background Aitoff
Page 54 and 55: Importance of telescope thermal emi
Page 56 and 57: Mauna Kea in the Pacific Ocean Wain
Page 58 and 59: Antarctica: the coldest continent o
Page 60 and 61: Airborne infrared astronomy: SOFIA
Page 62 and 63: A brief history of IR space astrono
Page 64 and 65: IRAS (almost) all-sky survey Yellow
Page 66 and 67: IRTS survey coverage and results JA
Page 68 and 69: M16, the Eagle Nebula with ISO ESA
Page 70 and 71: Galactic centre with MSX US BMDO
Page 72 and 73: Orion Nebula & Trapezium Cluster Lu
Page 74 and 75: Herschel Space Observatory (2009) E
Page 76 and 77: Basic techniques for detecting IR p
Page 78 and 79: Detector materials in the Periodic
Page 80 and 81: Extrinsic semiconductor properties
Page 82 and 83: Schematic hybrid infrared array Det
Page 84 and 85: WIRCam 4096x4096 HAWAII2RG mosaic a
Page 86 and 87: HAWK-I on VLT UT4 Nasmyth platform
Page 88 and 89: Single-element detector raster imag
Page 90 and 91:
Modern wide-field survey of Orion U
Page 92 and 93:
Back to physics: Poisson distributi
Page 94 and 95:
Poisson distribution (III) Key feat
Page 96 and 97:
Application to signal-to-noise calc
Page 98 and 99:
Calculating astronomical S/N (II) M
Page 100 and 101:
Calculating astronomical S/N (IV) T
Page 102 and 103:
Background-limited case Full signal
Page 104 and 105:
Reducing the area subtended by sour
Page 106 and 107:
European Extremely Large Telescope
Page 108 and 109:
An overview of the JWST 6.5m deploy
Page 110 and 111:
The extraordinary sensitivity of th
Page 112 and 113:
Ariane 5 ECA launch from Kourou to
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Summary Key questions to be answere
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