AKARI warm mission

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Jul 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010spie.7731e..16o&link_type=abstract

Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave. Edited by Oschmann, Jacobus M., Jr.; Clampin

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AKARI, the Japanese satellite mission dedicated for infrared astronomy launched in 2006 February, exhausted its 180 litter liquid helium (LHe) in 2007 August. After the LHe exhaustion, the telescope and focal plane of AKARI have still been kept less than 50K by the onboard cryocooler and near-infrared (NIR) observations with the Infrared Camera (IRC) are continuing. The data reduction software optimized for the warm mission enables us to carry out efficient and sensitive observations in the NIR despite the increase of hot pixels. In particular, the NIR spectroscopic capability of the IRC provides a unique opportunity to obtain spectra in 2.5-5μm with a high sensitivity, which will not be able to be carried out with any other facilities until JWST. An overview of the AKARI warm mission is given together with the performance and some observational results taken during the warm mission.

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