The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly the
Space Infrared Telescope Facility) is the fourth and final facility in the Great Observatories …

Abstract The Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) is one of three focal plane instruments on the
Spitzer Space Telescope. IRAC is a four-channel camera that obtains simultaneous …

Arsenic doped back illuminated blocked impurity band (BIBIB) silicon detectors have
advanced near and mid-IR astronomy for over thirty years; they have high quantum …

In this paper, we present the design and test performance of the COMICS, the mid-IR
instrument for the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea. The instrument has both imaging …

The Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) is one of three focal plane instruments on board the
Spitzer Space Telescope. IRAC is a four-channel camera that obtains simultaneous broad …

We describe the new design and current performance of the Mid-InfraRed Spectrometer and
Imager (MIRSI) on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF). The system has been …

Detector focal plane technology has revolutionized many kinds of imaging. From gamma
rays to the infrared and even radio waves, the rate at which images can be acquired has …

An all‐sky survey in two mid‐infrared bands covering wavelengths from 6 to 12 and 14 to 26
μm, with a spatial resolution of∼ 9 farcs 4–10'', will be performed with the Infrared Camera …

The 1990s saw the rapid evolution of staring IR focal plane arrays (FPAs), with array formats
progressing from 128 by 128 arrays at the beginning of the decade, to 1K by 1K arrays in …

The Infrared Camera (IRC) is one of the focal-plane instruments on board the Japanese
infrared astronomical space mission ASTRO-F. It will make wide-field deep imaging and low …