New type of bolometer detector for far-infrared telescopes

To study how stars and planets are born we have to look at star cradles hidden in cool clouds of dust. Far-infrared telescopes are able to pierce through those clouds. Conventionally, niobium nitride bolometers are used as the detectors, despite their low operating temperature of 4 Kelvin (-269° Celsius).

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Field splitter footprint and detectors. A fixed mirror splits the

Astronomical imaging Fourier spectroscopy at far-infrared wavelengths

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