15–20 Feb 2010
TU Vienna
Europe/Vienna timezone

Large Space Telescopes

15 Feb 2010, 10:40
50m
HS 1 (TU Vienna)

HS 1

TU Vienna

Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10 Vienna, Austria
Invited Talk Astroparticle Physics Large Detector Systems 1

Speaker

Prof. Eduardo do Couto e Silva (SLAC)

Description

Telescopes in space are reaching the limit of what the present detector technology can achieve. Nevertheless, there is a growing need to image large fractions of sky and to study faint and cool signals from the Universe. This talk will describe how future space telescopes are planning to address these requirements by building large arrays of pixelized sensors and/or large field of view detectors. We will focus only on space experiments that measure emissions from the electromagnetic spectrum.

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