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| Paper: |
HIFOGS: Its design, operations and calibration |
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73, Airborne Astronomy Symposium on the Galactic Ecosystem: From Gas to Stars to Dust |
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573 |
| Authors: |
Witteborn, Fred C.; Cohen, Martin; Bregman, Jesse D.; Heere, Karen R.; Greene, Thomas P.; Wooden, Diane H. |
| Abstract: |
The High-efficiency, Infrared Faint Object Grating Spectrometer (HIFOGS) provides spectral coverage of selectable portions of the 3 to 18 micron range at resolving powers from 00 to 1000 using 120 Si/Bi detectors. Additional coverage to 30 microns is provided by a bank of 32 Si:P detectors. Selectable apertures, gratings and band-pass filters provide flexibility to this system. Software for operation of HIFOGS and reduction of the data runs on a MacIntosh computer. HIFOGS has been used to establish celestial flux standards using 3 independent approaches: comparison to star models, comparisons to asteroid models and comparisons to laboratory blackbodies. These standards are expected to have wide application in astronomical thermal-infrared spectroscopy. |
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