Laboratory and In-Flight Measurements at 10-55 K of InSb Near-Infrared Detector Performance for the Warm Mission of the AKARI Satellite

Details Laboratory and In-Flight Measurements at 10-55 K of InSb Near-Infrared Detector Performance for the Warm Mission of the AKARI Satellite Laboratory and In-Flight Measurements at 10-55 K of InSb Near-Infrared Detector Performance for the Warm Mission of the AKARI Satellite

Aug 2011

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 123, issue 906, pp.942-952

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The warm mission phase of AKARI, the Japanese infrared astronomical satellite, has started after its 180 liter liquid helium cryogen was exhausted. Since then, we have conducted near-infrared observations with the Infrared Camera (IRC), while the telescope is slowly warming up. To explore the possibility of continuing observations at higher temperatures, we evaluate the performance of the InSb detector array, a flight backup model for the IRC, in a laboratory at various operating temperatures between 10 K and 55 K. By combining the laboratory measurements with the in-flight measurements of the AKARI/IRC detector array, we consistently derive the changes of relative sensitivity, dark current, total noise, and the number of hot pixels with operating temperature. All of them show small changes in a range of temperature from 10 K to 40 K. However, at temperatures above 40 K, the dark current and the number of hot pixels start to increase rapidly, while the relative sensitivity decreases and the total noise increases gradually. We obtain the dependence of the performance on bias voltages to suggest an optimal operation for a future AKARI warmer phase.

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