Calibrator Design for the COBE Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS)

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J. C. Mather et al. 1999 ApJ 512 511 doi:10.1086/306805

Calibrator Design for the COBE^* Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS)

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J. C. Mather¹, D. J. Fixsen², R. A. Shafer¹, C. Mosier¹ and D. T. Wilkinson³

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