@inproceedings{277d72c418e74477bc502c948b82ff23,
title = "NIRCam:Development and testing of the JWST Near-Infrared Camera",
abstract = "The Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) is one of the four science instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Its high sensitivity, high spatial resolution images over the 0.6 - 5 μxm wavelength region will be essential for making significant findings in many science areas as well as for aligning the JWST primary mirror segments and telescope. The NIRCam engineering test unit was recently assembled and has undergone successful cryogenic testing. The NIRCam collimator and camera optics and their mountings are also progressing, with a brass-board system demonstrating relatively low wavefront error across a wide field of view. The flight model's long-wavelength Si grisms have been fabricated, and its coronagraph masks are now being made. Both the short (0.6 - 2.3 μm) and long (2.4 - 5.0 μm) wavelength flight detectors show good performance and are undergoing final assembly and testing. The flight model subsystems should all be completed later this year through early 2011, and NIRCam will be cryogenically tested in the first half of 2011 before delivery to the JWST integrated science instrument module (ISIM).",
keywords = "Astronomical instruments, Infrared, JWST, NIRcam, Space telescopes",
author = "Thomas Greene and Charles Beichman and Michael Gully-Santiago and Daniel Jaffe and Douglas Kelly and John Krist and Marcia Rieke and Smith, {Eric H.}",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1117/12.856615",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780819482211",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010",
note = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave ; Conference date: 27-06-2010 Through 02-07-2010",
}