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astro-ph.IM2013★ 10 cited

Science enabled by high precision inertial formation flying

G. K. Skinner, B. R. Dennis, J. F. Krizmanic +1

The capability of maintaining two satellites in precise relative position, stable in a celestial coordinate system, would enable major advances in a number of scientific discipline…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 7 cited

Re-testing the JET-X Flight Module No. 2 at the PANTER facility

Daniele Spiga, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Paolo Soffitta +19

The Joint European X-ray Telescope (JET-X) was the core instrument of the Russian Spectrum-X-gamma space observatory. It consisted of two identical soft X-ray (0.3 - 10 keV) telesc…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 4 cited

First results with the boloSource() algorithm: Photometry of faint standard stars observed by Herschel/PACS

Gábor Marton, Roland Vavrek, Csaba Kiss +1

The boloSource() algorithm is a tool to separate the signal of compact sources from that of the diffuse background in the timeline of far-infrared measurements performed by the PAC…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 9 cited

PACS photometer calibration block analysis

A. Moór, T. Müller, Cs. Kiss +3

The absolute stability of the PACS bolometer response over the entire mission lifetime without applying any corrections is about 0.5% (standard deviation) or about 8% peak-to-peak.…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 177 cited

The Herschel-PACS photometer calibration: Point-source flux calibration for scan maps

Zoltan Balog, Thomas Müller, Markus Nielbock +9

This paper provides an overview of the PACS photometer flux calibration concept, in particular for the principal observation mode, the scan map. The absolute flux calibration is ti…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 22 cited

Optimized Herschel/PACS photometer observing and data reduction strategies for moving solar system targets

Cs. Kiss, Th. G. Müller, E. Vilenius +10

The "TNOs are Cool!: A survey of the trans-Neptunian region" is a Herschel Open Time Key Program that aims to characterize planetary bodies at the outskirts of the Solar System usi…