The Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS)

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Sep 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004apjs..154...25r&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 154, Issue 1, pp. 25-29.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

1053

Infrared: General, Space Vehicles: Instruments

Scientific paper

The Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) provides long-wavelength capability for the mission in imaging bands at 24, 70, and 160 μm and measurements of spectral energy distributions between 52 and 100 μm at a spectral resolution of about 7%. By using true detector arrays in each band, it provides both critical sampling of the Spitzer point-spread function and relatively large imaging fields of view, allowing for substantial advances in sensitivity, angular resolution, and efficiency of areal coverage compared with previous space far-infrared capabilities. The 24 μm array has excellent photometric properties, and measurements with rms relative errors of about 1% can be obtained. The two longer-wavelength arrays use detectors with poor photometric stability, but a system of onboard stimulators used for relative calibration, combined with a unique data pipeline, produce good photometry with rms relative errors of less than 10%.

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