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The NASA Space Infrared Telescope Facility

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The NASA Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) will begin definition phase funding in November of 1996. The instrumentation is being designed to accomodate scientific investigation programs in four key areas: discovery and study of brown dwarfs and super planets, discovery and study of protoplanetary and planetary debris disks, study of ultra-luminous galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGN) and study of the early universe.

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Gautier, T. N.. 1996-11-11. The NASA Space Infrared Telescope Facility. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20060036695

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