Flight performance of the Near-Infrared Spectrometer

Manabu Noda; Toshio Matsumoto; Hiroshi Murakami; Mitsunobu Kawada; Masahiro Tanaka; Shuji Matsuura; Hongfeng Guo

doi:10.1117/12.255185

21 October 1996 Flight performance of the Near-Infrared Spectrometer

Manabu Noda, Toshio Matsumoto, Hiroshi Murakami, Mitsunobu Kawada, Masahiro Tanaka, Shuji Matsuura, Hongfeng Guo

Proceedings Volume 2817, Infrared Spaceborne Remote Sensing IV; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.255185
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

The near-infrared spectrometer (NIRS) is one of the focal plane instruments of the infrared telescope in space (IRTS). The NIRS is a simple grating spectrometer with two element InSb linear arrays, and was designed to measure the absolute sky brightness at the wavelengths from 1.4 to 4.0 micrometer with a spectral resolution of 0.13 micrometer and a beam size of 8 feet by 8 feet. The IRTS was launched on 1995 March 18. The NIRS worked well throughout the observation period from March 29 to April 25, and scanned about 7% of the entire sky. Multiple passage of bright stars through the NIRS field of view enabled us to reconstruct the beam pattern and to calibrate the sensitivity. Those flight data confirmed good performance of the NIRS on the orbit as was expected from the preflight measurements.

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Manabu Noda, Toshio Matsumoto, Hiroshi Murakami, Mitsunobu Kawada, Masahiro Tanaka, Shuji Matsuura, and Hongfeng Guo "Flight performance of the Near-Infrared Spectrometer", Proc. SPIE 2817, Infrared Spaceborne Remote Sensing IV, (21 October 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.255185

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