| Autor: |
Eric E. Becklin, Evan Kress, Erin C. Smith, Kenneth G. Magnone, George Brims, A. Oldag, T. Silvers, Gunnar E. Skulason, John Milburn, Ralph Y. Shuping, Ian S. McLean, Theodore Aliado |
| Rok vydání: |
2006 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
SPIE Proceedings. |
| ISSN: |
0277-786X |
| DOI: |
10.1117/12.672173 |
| Popis: |
FLITECAM is a 1-5 micron infrared camera for NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). A 1024 ×1024 InSb ALADDIN III detector and large refractive optics provide a field of view of almost 8 arc minutes in diameter with a scale of just under 0.5 arc seconds per pixel. The instrument is cooled by a double liquid helium and liquid nitrogen cryostat. Using a collimated beam of about 26 mm diameter, a low resolution spectroscopic mode is also available using direct-ruled KRS5 grisms and fixed slits of either 1" or 2" width and 60" length to yield resolving powers of R~1700 and 900 respectively. FLITECAM has been partially commissioned at the 3-m Shane telescope of Lick Observatory where the f/17 optics of this telescope provides almost the same plate scale as SOFIA. Astronomical observing requests (scripts) and a real-time data reduction pipeline (DRP) for dithered image patterns have been demonstrated. The performance of the instrument during ground-based trials is illustrated. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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