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most citedThe Herschel-SPIRE instrument and its in-flight performance

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astro-ph.IM2014★ 19 cited

EChOSim: The Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory software simulator

E. Pascale, I. P. Waldmann, C. J. MacTavish +11

EChOSim is the end-to-end time-domain simulator of the Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) space mission. EChOSim has been developed to assess the capability EChO has to…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 73 cited

Calibration of the Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer

B. M. Swinyard, E. T. Polehampton, R. Hopwood +21

The Herschel SPIRE instrument consists of an imaging photometric camera and an imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS), both operating over a frequency range of 450-1550 GHz.…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 11 cited

Herschel SPIRE FTS Relative Spectral Response Calibration

Trevor Fulton, Rosalind Hopwood, Jean-Paul Baluteau +9

Herschel/SPIRE Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) observations contain emission from both the Herschel Telescope and the SPIRE Instrument itself, both of which are typically orde…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 7 cited

Herschel SPIRE FTS telescope model correction

Rosalind Hopwood, Trevor Fulton, Edward T. Polehampton +8

Emission from the Herschel telescope is the dominant source of radiation for the majority of SPIRE Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) observations, despite the exceptionally low…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 7 cited

Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer: Calibration of its Bright-source Mode

Nanyao Lu, Edward T. Polehampton, Bruce M. Swinyard +10

The Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) of the Spectral and Photometric Imaging REceiver (SPIRE) on board the ESA Herschel Space Observatory has two detector setting modes: (a) a…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 8 cited

Relative pointing offset analysis of calibration targets with repeated observations with Herschel-SPIRE Fourier-Transform Spectrometer

Ivan Valtchanov, Rosalind Hopwood, Edward Polehampton +9

We present a method to derive the relative pointing offsets for SPIRE Fourier-Transform Spectrometer (FTS) solar system object (SSO) calibration targets, which were observed regula…