Murakami, Hiroshi and Freund, Minoru M. and Ganga, Ken and Guo, Hongfeng and Hirao, Takanori and Hiromoto, Norihisa and Kawada, Mitsunobu and Lange, Andrew E. and Makiuti, Sin'itirou and Matsuhara, Hideo and Matsumoto, Toshio and Matsuura, Shuji and Murakami, Masahide and Nakagawa, Takao and Narita, Masanao and Noda, Manabu and Okuda, Haruyuki and Okumura, Ken'ichi and Onaka, Takashi and Roellig, Thomas L. and Sato, Shinji and Shibai, Hiroshi and Smith, Beverly J. and Tanabe, Toshihiko and Tanaka, Masahiro and Watabe, Toyoki and Yamamura, Issei and Yuen, Lunming (1996) The IRTS (Infrared Telescope in Space) Mission. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 48 (5). L41-L46. ISSN 0004-6264. doi:10.1093/pasj/48.5.L41. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170408-200419916
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Abstract
The Japanese satellite-borne infrared telescope, the Infrared Telescope in Space (IRTS), has completed a successful survey of a portion of the infrared sky. The IRTS consists of a 15 cm telescope cooled with superfluid liquid helium, and is installed on board the Space Flyer Unit (SFU) spacecraft. The SFU was launched on 1995 March 18 UT. The sky survey by the IRTS started on March 29 UT, and was completed on April 25 UT after exhausting its liquid helium. The cryogenic system operated as designed, and maintained the telescope and the focal-plane instruments at a stable temperature of 1.9 K for 38 days. The four focal-plane instruments, which together covered almost the entire infrared wavelength range, observed a sky area of about 2700 deg2 and returned a wealth of new data on a variety of objects, including the zodiacal light, interstellar gas and dust, near-infrared cosmic background light and point sources.
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| Additional Information: | © 1996 Astronomical Society of Japan. (Received 1996 July 12; accepted 1996 September 2) The authors would like to thank the SFU project team for their support in all aspects, including the integration of the instruments, the flight operation, and the preparation of data on the orbit and attitude of the spacecraft. The authors are grateful to Y. Doi, K. Mochizuki, and T. Tohya, who assisted us in the flight operation. The authors also thank IPAC for their help in the pointing reconstruction of the IRTS. T. Roellig and L. Yuen would like to acknowledge the support of NASA's grants program. | |||||||||
| Group: | Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) | |||||||||
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| Subject Keywords: | Infrared: general — Instruments — Spacecraft | |||||||||
| Issue or Number: | 5 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/pasj/48.5.L41 | |||||||||
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