Greene SOFIA talk abstract

[Tom Greene <thomas.p.greene@nasa.gov>]

Here is the abstract for my talk on SOFIA at the Lab Astrophysics
Workshop:

The Stratospheric Airborne Observatory will fly at altitudes of 12.5 --
13.7 km, above 99\% of the atmosphere's water vapor. This will open nearly
the entire spectrum for observations, from near-UV to beyond
sub-millimeter wavelengths.  SOFIA's spectrographs will see many atomic
and molecular features which have been either poorly studied or undetected
thus far; their interpretation will rely heavily on laboratory
astrophysics data. The SOFIA observatory, instrumentation, and mission are
described in this talk. Examples of observations of interest to laboratory
astrophysicists will be given, and there will be some discussion of
what laboratory astrophysics data are needed to ensure that SOFIA will
achieve NASA's astrophysics goals.


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Tom Greene (thomas.p.greene@nasa.gov)
NASA Ames Research Center, MS 245-6, Moffett Field, CA 94035
Voice: 650-604-5520  Fax: 650-604-6779

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:36:05 -0800
From: Farid Salama <Farid.Salama@nasa.gov>
To: Thomas.P.Greene@nasa.gov
Cc: "Federman, Steven R." <SFEDERM@UTNet.UToledo.Edu>,
     Victor Kwong <vhs@physics.unlv.edu>
Subject: NASA Laboratory Astrophysics Workshop 2006

Hi Tom,

Thanks for agreeing to cover for the SOFIA project. I'm forwarding to
you in the next message the formal invitation on behalf of the SOC. It
contains the web link for the workshop with all the updated information.
Please register and submit your abstract as soon as possible to
labastro@physics.unlv.edu. You should contact Steve Federman and/or
Victor Kwong if you have further questions about the logistics.

Thanks, Farid