期刊名称：ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2194-9042
电子版ISSN：2194-9050
出版年度：2010
卷号：XXXVIII - Part 8
页码：100-103
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：The Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SM ILES), which was developed jointly by JAXA and NICT, has been successfully launched and attached to the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) on the International Space Station (ISS). It has been doing observations in the Earth's atmosphere since October 12, 2009 with the aid of 4-K mechanical cooler and super- conductive mixer for the submillimeter limb-emission sounding. The high sensitivity measurement on weak submillimeter waves emitted from minor species can be performed on the basis of a receiver using superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) mixers under the cryogenic conditions that can be achieved by a compact mechanical cooler down to 4.5 K. The cryostat with a Joule-Thomson circuit and a two-stage Stirling refrigerator has been developed and equipped for the atmospheric observation for the first time from space
关键词：Atmospheric chemistry; submillimeter-wave; limb sounding; mechanical cryocooler; superconductive mixer; ; international space station
