Year: 2000
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) is one of three focal plane instruments in the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF). IRAC is a four-channel camera that obtains simultaneous images at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8 microns. Two adjacent 5.12 X 5.12 arcmin fields of view in the SIRTF focal plane are viewed by the four channels in pairs (3.6 and 5.8 microns; 4.5 and 8 microns). All four detectors arrays in the camera are 256 X 256 pixels in size, with the two shorter wavelength channels using InSb and the two longer wavelength channels using Si:As IBC detectors. We describe here the results of the instrument functionality and calibration tests completed at Goddard Space Flight Center, and provide estimates of the in-flight sensitivity and performance of IRAC in SIRTF.
DOI: 10.1117/12.406553
Authors: Joseph L. Hora, Giovanni G. Fazio, Steven P. Willner, Michael L. N. Ashby, Jiasheng Huang, S. Thomas Megeath, John R. Stauffer, Eric V. Tollestrup, Zhong Wang, William J. Glaccum, Judith L. Pipher, William J. Forrest, Craig R. McCreight, Mark E. McKelvey, William F. Hoffman, Peter Eisenhardt, Jason A. Surace, William T. Reach, Samuel H. Moseley, Jr., Richard G. Arendt, Kenneth P. Stewart, F. David Robinson
Language: English
Subfield: Instrumentation
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2162226352