The ARGO project: scientific targets, first results and future perspectives.
Abstract
The ARGO program consists of a balloon-borne mm and sub-mm telescope, devoted to the observation of diffuse radiation in the wavelength range between 2 mm and 300 μm, at angular scales between 10' and 5°. The authors review the impact of such observations in different fields ranging from Atmospheric Physics to Cosmology. They also quote the results obtained from ARGO's first flight in 1989, and they describe the improved version of ARGO they are currently developing.
- Publication:
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Nuovo Cimento C Geophysics Space Physics C
- Pub Date:
- December 1992
- Bibcode:
- 1992NCimC..15..993D
- Keywords:
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- Balloon-Borne Instruments;
- Cassegrain Optics;
- Reflecting Telescopes;
- Sky Surveys (Astronomy);
- Submillimeter Waves;
- Anisotropy;
- Background Noise;
- Optimization;
- Temperature Gradients