In-orbit performance of the Herschel/SPIRE imaging Fourier transform spectrometer
Abstract
The Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) is one of three scientific instruments onboard the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory launched on 14 May 2009. The low to medium resolution spectroscopic capability of SPIRE is provided by an imaging Fourier transform spectrometer of the Mach-Zehnder configuration. Results from the in flight performance verification phase of the SPIRE spectrometer are presented and conformance with the instrument design specifications is reviewed.
- Publication:
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
- Pub Date:
- July 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.856299
- Bibcode:
- 2010SPIE.7731E..16N