Training of Instrumentalists and Development of New Technologies on SOFIA

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dc.creatorErickson, Edwin F.
dc.creatorAllamandola, Louis J.
dc.creatorBaluteau, Jean-Paul
dc.creatorBecklin, Eric E.
dc.creatorBjoraker, Gordon
dc.creatorBurton, Michael
dc.creatorCaroff, Lawrence J.
dc.creatorCeccarelli, Cecilia
dc.creatorChurchwell, Edward B.
dc.creatorClemens, Dan P.
dc.creatorCohen, Martin
dc.creatorCruikshank, Dale P.
dc.creatorDinerstein, Harriet L.
dc.creatorDunham, Edward W.
dc.creatorFazio, Giovanni G.
dc.creatorGatley, Ian
dc.creatorGehrz, Robert D.
dc.creatorGenzel, Reinhard
dc.creatorGraf, Paul
dc.creatorGreenhouse, Matthew A.
dc.creatorHarper, Doyal A.
dc.creatorHarvey, Paul M.
dc.creatorHarwit, Martin
dc.creatorHildebrand, Roger H.
dc.creatorHollenbach, David J.
dc.creatorLane, Adair P.
dc.creatorLarson, Harold P.
dc.creatorLord, Steven D.
dc.creatorMadden, Suzanne
dc.creatorMelnick, Gary J.
dc.creatorNeufeld, David A.
dc.creatorOlkin, Catherine B.
dc.creatorPackham, Christopher C.
dc.creatorRoellig, Thomas L.
dc.creatorRoeser, Hans-Peter
dc.creatorSandford, Scott A.
dc.creatorSellgren, Kristen
dc.creatorSimpson, Janet P.
dc.creatorStorey, John W. V.
dc.creatorTelesco, Charles M.
dc.creatorTielens, Alexander G. G. M.
dc.creatorTokunaga, Alan T.
dc.creatorTownes, Charles H.
dc.creatorWalker, Christopher K.
dc.creatorWerner, Michael W.
dc.creatorWhitcomb, Stanley E.
dc.creatorWolf, Juergen
dc.creatorWoodward, Charles E.
dc.creatorYoung, Erick T.
dc.creatorZmuidzinas, Jonas
dc.date2009-03-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:56:21Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:56:21Z
dc.descriptionThis white paper is submitted to the Astronomy and Astrophysics 2010 Decadal Survey (Astro2010)1 Committee on the State of the Profession to emphasize the potential of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) to contribute to the training of instrumentalists and observers, and to related technology developments. This potential goes beyond the primary mission of SOFIA, which is to carry out unique, high priority astronomical research. SOFIA is a Boeing 747SP aircraft with a 2.5 meter telescope. It will enable astronomical observations anywhere, any time, and at most wavelengths between 0.3 microns and 1.6 mm not accessible from ground-based observatories. These attributes, accruing from the mobility and flight altitude of SOFIA, guarantee a wealth of scientific return. Its instrument teams (nine in the first generation) and guest investigators will do suborbital astronomy in a shirt-sleeve environment. The project will invest $10M per year in science instrument development over a lifetime of 20 years. This, frequent flight opportunities, and operation that enables rapid changes of science instruments and hands-on in-flight access to the instruments, assure a unique and extensive potential - both for training young instrumentalists and for encouraging and deploying nascent technologies. Novel instruments covering optical, infrared, and submillimeter bands can be developed for and tested on SOFIA by their developers (including apprentices) for their own observations and for those of guest observers, to validate technologies and maximize observational effectiveness.
dc.description10 pages, no figures, White Paper for Astro 2010 Survey Committee on State of the Profession
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0903.4240
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0903.4240
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/224553
dc.subjectInstrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
dc.titleTraining of Instrumentalists and Development of New Technologies on SOFIA
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