TIMED Doppler interferometer (TIDI)

Timothy L. Killeen; Wilbert R. Skinner; Roberta M. Johnson; Charles J. Edmonson; Qian Wu; Rick J. Niciejewski; Heinz J. Grassl; David A. Gell; Peter E. Hansen; Jon D. Harvey; Julie F. Kafkalidis

doi:10.1117/12.366383

20 October 1999 TIMED Doppler interferometer (TIDI)

Timothy L. Killeen, Wilbert R. Skinner, Roberta M. Johnson, Charles J. Edmonson, Qian Wu, Rick J. Niciejewski, Heinz J. Grassl, David A. Gell, Peter E. Hansen, Jon D. Harvey, Julie F. Kafkalidis

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Proceedings Volume 3756, Optical Spectroscopic Techniques and Instrumentation for Atmospheric and Space Research III; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366383
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1999, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

The TIMED Doppler Interferometer (TIDI) is a Fabry-Perot interferometer designed to measure winds, temperatures, and constituents in the mesosphere and thermosphere (60 - 300 km) region of the atmosphere as part of the TIMED mission. TIDI is a limb viewer and observes emissions from OI 557.7 nm, OI 630.0 nm, OII 732.0 nm, O₂(0-0), O₂(0-1), Na D, OI 844.6 nm, and OH in the spectral region 550 - 900 nm. Wind measurement accuracies will approach 3 ms^-1 in the mesosphere and 15 ms^-1 in the thermosphere. The TIDI instrument has several novel features that allow high measurement accuracies in a modest-sized instrument. These include: an optical system that simultaneously feeds the views from four scanning telescopes which are pointed at plus or minus 45 degrees and plus or minus 135 degrees to the spacecraft velocity vector into a high-resolution interferometer, the first spaceflight application of the circle-to-line imaging optic (CLIO), and a high quantum efficiency, low noise CCD.

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Timothy L. Killeen, Wilbert R. Skinner, Roberta M. Johnson, Charles J. Edmonson, Qian Wu, Rick J. Niciejewski, Heinz J. Grassl, David A. Gell, Peter E. Hansen, Jon D. Harvey, and Julie F. Kafkalidis "TIMED Doppler interferometer (TIDI)", Proc. SPIE 3756, Optical Spectroscopic Techniques and Instrumentation for Atmospheric and Space Research III, (20 October 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366383

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