Comparison of laboratory and in-flight performance of infrared array camera (IRAC) detector arrays on Spitzer Space Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 234-243

  Pipher, Judith L ^a   McMurtry, Craig W ^a   Forrest, William J ^a   McCreight, Craig R ^b   McKelvey, Mark E ^b   McMurray Jr , Robert E ^b   Johnson, Roy R ^b   Fazio, Giovanni G ^c   Hora, Joseph L ^h   Allen, Lori E ^c   Ashby, Matthew L N ^c   Barmby, Pauline ^c   Deutsch, Lynne K ^c   Huang, Jiasheng ^c   Marengo, Massimo ^c   Megeath, S Thomas ^c   Pahre, Michael A ^c   Patten, Brian M ^c   Wang, Zhong ^c   Willner, Steven P ^c   Hoffmann, William F ^d   Moseley, S Harvey ^e   Arendt, Richard G ^e   Krebs, Danny J ^e   Eisenhardt, Peter ^f   Stern, Daniel ^f   Gorjian, Varoujan ^f   Bhattacharya, Bidushi ^g   Glaccum, William J ^g   Lacy, Mark ^g   Lowrance, Patrick J ^g   Carey, Scan J ^g   Laine, Seppo ^g   Stauffer, John ^g   Surace, Jason A ^g   Reach, William T ^g   Wilson, Gillian ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h NONE

Author keywords

Detector Array; InSb; Long wave infrared (LWIR); Mid wave infrared (MWIR); Si:As IBC; Spitzer Space Telescope

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED DETECTORS; LIGHT SCATTERING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DETECTOR ARRAYS; INSB; LONG-WAVE INFRARED (LWIR); MID-WAVE INFRARED (MWIR); SI: AS IBC; SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 10044251315     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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