Erratum: TIRCAM: A Mid-Infrared Camera for Ground-Based Astronomy

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Infrared Array Detectors, Infrared Camera

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A mid-infrared (8 22 μm) camera, equipped with a Hughes hybrid bulk Si:As array detector of 10×64 pixels was developed for the 1.5 m Italian Infrared Telescope (TIRGO). The instrument was used for narrow- band 8 14 μm high-background astronomical observations. Here we present a short description of the camera, including its fast readout electronics and its optical design. When used at TIRGO, the camera has a pixel scale of 1.23 arcsec/pix. From the observations of infrared standard stars we derived a noise equivalent flux density (NEFD) that, for all the filters, is in the range 0.5 0.7 Jy×arcsec-2×min-1/2 and a point spread function (PSF) of the order of 3 arcsec(FWHM). Mosaics of the extended sources Mars at 8.8, 9.8, and 12.5 μm, and of the star forming region Orion BN-KL Nebula at 12.5 μm, are shown. The camera performances are also illustrated on the basis of the image of the post-AGB source CRL618.

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