Summary of observations of the infrared camera (IRC) onboard AKARI

T. Onaka, H. Matsuhara, T. Wada, D. Ishihara, Y. Ohyama, I. Sakon, T. Shimonishi, R. Ohsawa, T. I. Mori, F. Egusa, F. Usui, S. Takita, H. Murakami, S. Oyabu, M. Yamagishi, T. Mori, A. Mouri, T. Kondo, S. Suzuki, H. KanedaY. Ita, T. Ootsubo

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AKARI, the Japanese satellite mission dedicated to infrared astronomy was launched in 2006 February and exhausted its liquid helium in 2007 August. During the cold mission phase, the Infrared Camera (IRC) onboard carried out an all-sky survey at 9 and 18μm with better spatial resolution and higher sensitivity than IRAS. Both bands also have slightly shorter wavelength coverage than IRAS 12 and 25μm bands and thus provide different information on the infrared sky. All-sky image data of the IRC are now in the final processing and will be released to the public within a year. After the exhaustion of the cryogen, the telescope and focal plane instruments of AKARI had still been kept at sufficiently low temperatures owing to the onboard cryocooler. Near-infrared (NIR) imaging and spectroscopic observations with the IRC had continued until 2011 May, when the spacecraft had a serious problem in the power supply system that forced us to terminate the observation. The IRC carried out nearly 20000 pointing observations in total despite of its near-earth orbit. About a half of them were performed after the exhaustion of the cryogen in the spectroscopic modes, which provided high-sensitivity NIR spectra from 2 to 5μm without disturbance of the terrestrial atmosphere. During the warm mission phase, the temperature of the instrument gradually increased and changed the array operation conditions. We present a summary of AKARI/IRC observations, including the all-sky mid-infrared diffuse data as well as the data taken in the warm mission phase.

本文言語English
ホスト出版物のタイトルSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012
ホスト出版物のサブタイトルOptical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 2012
イベントSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave - Amsterdam, Netherlands
継続期間: 2012 7月 12012 7月 6

出版物シリーズ

名前Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
8442
ISSN(印刷版)0277-786X

Other

OtherSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
国/地域Netherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period12/7/112/7/6

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 電子材料、光学材料、および磁性材料
  • 凝縮系物理学
  • コンピュータ サイエンスの応用
  • 応用数学
  • 電子工学および電気工学

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