In-flight performance and calibration of the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) for the Spitzer Space Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 77-92

  Hora, J L ^a   Fazio, G G ^a   Allen, L E ^a   Ashby, M L N ^a   Barmby, P ^a   Deutsch, L K ^a   Huang, J S ^a   Marengo, M ^a   Megeath, S T ^a   Melnick, G J ^a   Fahre, M A ^a   Patten, B M ^a   Smith, H A ^a   Wang, Z ^a   Willner, S P ^a   Hoffinann, W F ^b   Pipher, J L ^c   Forrest, W J ^c   McMurty, C W ^c   McCreight, C R ^d   McKelvey, M E ^d   McMurray Jr , R E ^d   Moseley, S H ^e   Arendt, R G ^e   Mentzell, J E ^e   Marx, C T ^e   Fixsen, D J ^e   Tollestrup, E V ^f   Eisenhardt, P R ^g   Stern, D ^g   Gorjian, V ^g   Bhattacharya, B ^h   Carey, S J ^h   Glaccum, W J ^h   Lacy, M ^h   Lowrance, P J ^h   Laine, S ^h   Nelson, B O ^h   Reach, W T ^h   Stauffer, J R ^h   Surace, J A ^h   Wilson, G ^h   Wright, E L ⁱ   more..

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IN-ORBIT CHECKOUT (IOC); INFRARED ARRAY CAMERAS (IRAC); SCIENCE VERIFICATION (SV); WAVELENGTH;

CAMERAS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; SPACE OPTICS; SPACECRAFT;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 10044267847     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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