The Photodetector Array Camera & Spectrometer (PACS) for Herschel

Details The Photodetector Array Camera & Spectrometer (PACS) for Herschel The Photodetector Array Camera & Spectrometer (PACS) for Herschel

Jul 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001esasp.460...29p&link_type=abstract

The Promise of the Herschel Space Observatory. Eds. G.L. Pilbratt, J. Cernicharo, A.M. Heras, T. Prusti, & R. Harris. ESA-SP 460

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Instruments: Far Infrared, Instruments: Space, Instruments: Photometer, Integral Field Spectrometer, Missions:Herschel

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The Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) is one of the three science instruments for ESA's far infrared and submillimetre observatory Herschel. It employs two Ge:Ga photoconductor arrays (stressed and unstressed) with 16 x 25 pixels, each, and two filled Si bolometer arrays with 16 x 32 and 32 x 64 pixels, respectively, to perform imaging line spectroscopy and imaging photometry in the 60-210 microns wavelength band. In photometry mode, it will simultaneously image two bands, 60-90 or 90-130 microns and 130-210 microns, over a field of view of ~ 1.75'× 3.5', with full beam sampling in each band. In spectroscopy mode, it will image a field of ~ 50'' × 50'', resolved into 5 x 5 pixels, with an instantaneous spectral coverage of ~ 1500km/s and a spectral resolution of ~ 175km/s. In both modes background-noise limited peformance is expected, with sensitivities (5σ in 1h) of ~ 3 mJy or 2-8× 10-18 W/m2, respectively.

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