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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
Volume 154, Issue 1, Pages 25-29Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/422717
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infrared : general; space vehicles : instruments
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The Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) provides long-wavelength capability for the mission in imaging bands at 24, 70, and 160 mum and measurements of spectral energy distributions between 52 and 100 mum 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 mum 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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