Toward NGST

James Roger P. Angel; James H. Burge; Neville J. Woolf

doi:10.1117/12.324487

28 August 1998 Toward NGST

James Roger P. Angel, James H. Burge, Neville J. Woolf

Proceedings Volume 3356, Space Telescopes and Instruments V; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.324487
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 1998, Kona, HI, United States

Abstract

A telescope to follow the HST does not necessarily have to be a lot bigger to make a dramatic advance in the observing capability. Provided it is cooled to allow exploration the 2-4 micrometers window of very dark sky background, and has several times the 0.85 m aperture of SIRTF, it would have already unique capability to resolve and study the crowded fields of the most strongly red-shifted, distant galaxies. Such a telescope could test many of the advanced technologies needed for the mirror elements in future deployed telescope or interferometers of very large size.

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James Roger P. Angel, James H. Burge, and Neville J. Woolf "Toward NGST", Proc. SPIE 3356, Space Telescopes and Instruments V, (28 August 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.324487

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