TY - JOUR
T1 - SIRTF instrument concepts
AU - Eisenhardt, Peter
AU - Fazio, Giovanni
AU - Houck, James
AU - Rieke, George
N1 - Funding Information:
under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The instrument design work sununarized here was carried out at the P1's home institutions and through contracts with Ball Aerospace for the MIPS and IRS, and with Goddard Space Right Center for the IRAC. We particularly wish to note the contributions of Jeff Van Cleve of Cornell University to the IRS design, and of Dennis Evans of ATR to the IRAC design. We are also grateful for information provided by Mary Bothwell and Bill Irace of JPL, Dick Taylor of SAO, and Erick Young of the University of Arizona.
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PY - 1993/10/1
Y1 - 1993/10/1
N2 - This paper describes the current design concepts for the three scientific instruments which are under definition study for NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF). These instruments, the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS), and the Multiband Imaging Photometer for SIRTF (MIPS), will provide imaging and spectroscopy from 2.5 to 200 μm. Over much of this range their performance will be limited only by natural astrophysical backgrounds in the solar system, and by diffraction. Changes in the instrument complement from the former Titan launched, Earth orbiting SIRTF concept to the present Atlas launched, solar orbiting concept are discussed.
AB - This paper describes the current design concepts for the three scientific instruments which are under definition study for NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF). These instruments, the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS), and the Multiband Imaging Photometer for SIRTF (MIPS), will provide imaging and spectroscopy from 2.5 to 200 μm. Over much of this range their performance will be limited only by natural astrophysical backgrounds in the solar system, and by diffraction. Changes in the instrument complement from the former Titan launched, Earth orbiting SIRTF concept to the present Atlas launched, solar orbiting concept are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.157820
DO - 10.1117/12.157820
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85076261859
SN - 0277-786X
VL - 2019
SP - 133
EP - 144
JO - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
JF - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
T2 - Infrared Spaceborne Remote Sensing 1993
Y2 - 11 July 1993 through 16 July 1993
ER -