H. H. Aumann

TL;DR: The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) as discussed by the authors consists of a spacecraft and a liquid helium cryostat that contains a cooled IR telescope, whose focal plane assembly is cooled to less than 3 K, and contains 62 IR detectors in the survey array.

TL;DR: The first detection of a large infrared excess from a main-sequence star without significant mass loss was reported in this article. But this was only for the case of Alpha Lyrae, which has a diameter of about 20 arcsec.

TL;DR: Extended sources of far-infrared emission superposed on the zodiacal and galactic backgrounds are found at high galactic latitudes and near the ecliptic plane as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the IRAS data reveal bright emission from interplanetary dust which dominates the celestial background at 12, 25, and 60 microns except near the galactic plane.

TL;DR: A preliminary discussion of the infrared properties of a representative subsample of galaxies in the Revised Shapley-Ames catalog (B less than about 13 mag) is presented in this paper.