The infrared spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope
| Autor: | Lee Armus, Terry Herter, Charles R. Lawrence, Jeronimo Bernard-Salas, George E. Gull, Sergio Fajardo-Acosta, Craig Blacken, Carl J. Grillmair, William J. Forrest, Martin Burgdorf, Harold J. Reitsema, J. Troeltzsch, Dan M. Watson, Keith Matthews, Daniel Devost, Philip N. Appleton, J. Ingalls, S. James U. Higdon, Harry I. Teplitz, Donald J. Barry, Vassilis Charmandaris, Thomas L. Roellig, B. T. Soifer, K. I. Uchida, Patrick W. Morris, James R. Houck, Marty Huisjen, Greg Sloan, Jeff Van Cleve, Bruce Pirger, Bernhard R. Brandl, Charles P. Henderson, Peter Hall, Dan Weedman, Justin Schoenwald |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Mather, John C. |
| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Physics
Spacecraft Infrared business.industry Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Centroid Astronomy Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Target acquisition Spitzer Space Telescope Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Spectral resolution business Spectrograph Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics Remote sensing Space environment |
| Zdroj: | SPIE Proceedings. |
| ISSN: | 0277-786X |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.550517 |
| Popis: | The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) is one of three science instruments on the Spitzer Space Telescope. The IRS comprises four separate spectrograph modules covering the wavelength range from 5.3 to 38 μm with spectral resolutions, R~90 and 650, and it was optimized to take full advantage of the very low background in the space environment. The IRS is performing at or better than the pre-launch predictions. An autonomous target acquisition capability enables the IRS to locate the mid-infrared centroid of a source, providing the information so that the spacecraft can accurately offset that centroid to a selected slit. This feature is particularly useful when taking spectra of sources with poorly known coordinates. An automated data reduction pipeline has been developed at the Spitzer Science Center. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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