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Emu: a case study for TDI-like imaging for infrared observation from space

Nordlander, Thomas; Casagrande, Luca; Ireland, Michael +14 more

A wide-field zenith-looking telescope operating in a mode similar to time-delay-integration (TDI) or drift scan imaging can perform an infrared sky survey without active pointing control, but it requires a high-speed, low-noise infrared detector. Operating from a hosted payload platform on the International Space Station (ISS), the Emu space teles…