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The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE): Mission Description and Initial On-orbit Performance
The all sky surveys done by the Palomar Observatory Schmidt, the European Southern Observatory Schmidt, and 
the United Kingdom Schmidt, the InfraRed Astronomical Satellite, and the Two Micron All Sky Survey have 
proven to be extremely useful tools for astronomy with value that lasts for decades. The Wide-field Infrared 
Survey Explorer (WISE) is mapping the whole sky following its launch on 2009 December 14. WISE began 
surveying the sky on 2010 January 14 and completed its first full coverage of the sky on July 17. The survey 
will continue to cover the sky a second time until the cryogen is exhausted (anticipated in 2010 November). 
WISE is achieving 5σ point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on 
the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22μm. Sensitivity improves toward the ecliptic 
poles due to denser coverage and lower zodiacal background. The angular resolution is 6".1, 6".4, 6".5, and 12".0 at 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22μm, and the astrometric precision for high signal-to-noise sources is better than 0".15.
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Development of sensitive long-wave infrared detector arrays for passively cooled space missions
Abstract. The near-earth object camera (NEOCam) is a proposed infrared space mission designed to discover and characterize most of the potentially hazardous asteroids larger than 140 m in diameter that orbit near the Earth. NASA has funded technology development for NEOCam, including the development of long wavelength infrared detector arrays that will have excellent zodiacal background emission-limited performance at passively cooled focal plane temperatures. Teledyne Imaging Sensors has developed and delivered for test at the University of Rochester the first set of approximately 10 μm cutoff, 1024×1024 pixel HgCdTe detector arrays. Measurements of these arrays show the development to be extremely promising: noise, dark current, quantum efficiency, and well depth goals have been met by this technology at focal plane temperatures of 35 to 40 K, readily attainable with passive cooling. The next set of arrays to be developed will address changes suggested by the first set of deliverables.
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PSEUDORAPIDITY DISTRIBUTION SHAPE OF SHOWER PARTICLES IN HIGH ENERGY NUCLEUS-EMULSION COLLISIONS
Abstract The characteristics of the pseudorapidity distribution shape of shower particles produced in high-energy nucleus-emulsion collisions have been studied in this paper. The simple and useful experimental formula, the Gaussian distribution, cannot describe the pseudorapidity distributions with a long tail, two peaks and a plateau. Considering the contributions of the projectile and target protons, the thermalized cylinder picture gives a better description of the experimental data.
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On Two-Ridge Structure in Two-Particle Azimuthal Correlations in Proton-Lead Collisions at Large Hadron Collider Energy
Two-particle azimuthal correlations are studied in the framework of a multisource thermal model. Each source is assumed to produce many particles. Each particle pair measured in final state is considered to be produced at two emission points (subsources) in a single or two sources. The first emission point corresponds to the production of “trigger” particle and the second one corresponds to that of “associated” particle. There are oscillations and other interactions between the two emission points. In the rest frame of the “associated” particle’s emission point, the oscillations and other interactions cause the momentum of the “trigger” particle to depart from the original value. The modelling results are in agreement with the experimental data of proton-lead (
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CORRELATION BETWEEN CONDITIONAL MOMENTS IN NUCLEAR DIFFRACTIVE EXCITATION AND ELECTROMAGNETIC DISSOCIATION AT HIGH ENERGY
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Evidence of self-similar target fragmentation process in 16O–AgBr interactions at 3.7 A GeV
Abstract Self-affine multiplicity scaling is investigated in the framework of two-dimensional factorial moment methodology using the concept of Hurst exponent ( H ) . Investigation of the experimental data of target fragments emitted in 16 O–AgBr interactions at 3.7 A GeV revealed that best power law behavior is exhibited at H = 1 indicating self-similar multiplicity fluctuations.
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Emission of Shower Particles in High-Energy Neutrino-Emulsion Collisions