Astrophysicists at the University of Lethbridge will develop a state-of-the-art cryogenic test facility to evaluate the performance of instruments destine for space exploration.
Boosted by a $250,000 grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Astronomical Instrumentation Group (AIG) at the University of Lethbridge is poised to build a liquid-helium free cryostat and cryogenic translation stage that will be used to develop and test the first cryogenic, far-Infrared, post-dispersed, polarising Fourier transform spectrometer.
This new type of spectrometer has been identified by the world’s leading space agencies (ESA, JAXA, NASA) as a necessary next step to explore both galaxy evolution in the farthest reaches of our universe and star and planet formation in our own galaxy.
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