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In-orbit Performance of the Near-Infrared Spectrograph NIRSpec on the James Webb Space Telescope
T. Böker, T. L. Beck, S. M. Birkmann +47
The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is one of the four focal plane instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope. In this paper, we summarize the in-orbit performance of NIRSp…
In-flight performance of the NIRSpec Micro Shutter Array
Timothy D. Rawle, Giovanna Giardino, David E. Franz +33
The NIRSpec instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) brings the first multi-object spectrograph (MOS) into space, enabled by a programmable Micro Shutter Array (MSA) of…
The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope IV. Capabilities and predicted performance for exoplanet characterization
S. M. Birkmann, P. Ferruit, G. Giardino +31
The Near-Inrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a very versatile instrument, offering multiobject and integral field spectroscopy with varying s…
The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope III. Integral-field spectroscopy
T. Böker, S. Arribas, N. Lützgendorf +28
The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) offers the first opportunity to use integral-field spectroscopy from space at near-infrared wavele…
The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope II. Multi-object spectroscopy (MOS)
P. Ferruit, P. Jakobsen, G. Giardino +30
We provide an overview of the capabilities and performance of the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) when used in its multi-object spectr…
The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope I. Overview of the instrument and its capabilities
P. Jakobsen, P. Ferruit, C. Alves de Oliveira +68
We provide an overview of the design and capabilities of the near-infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard the James Webb Space Telescope. NIRSpec is designed to be capable of carry…
μ-Spec Spectrometers for the EXCLAIM Instrument
Mona Mirzaei, Emily M. Barrentine, Berhanu T. Bulcha +12
The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a cryogenic balloon-borne instrument that will map carbon monoxide and singly-ionized carbon emission lin…
Overview and status of EXCLAIM, the experiment for cryogenic large-aperture intensity mapping
Giuseppe Cataldo, Peter Ade, Christopher Anderson +41
The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a balloon-borne far-infrared telescope that will survey star formation history over cosmological time sca…
Origins Space Telescope Mission Concept Study Report
M. Meixner, A. Cooray, D. Leisawitz +66
The Origins Space Telescope (Origins) traces our cosmic history, from the formation of the first galaxies and the rise of metals to the development of habitable worlds and present-…
The Experiment for Cryogenic Large-aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM)
P. A. R. Ade, C. J. Anderson, E. M. Barrentine +33
The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a cryogenic balloon-borne instrument that will survey galaxy and star formation history over cosmological…
Sub-Kelvin cooling for two kilopixel bolometer arrays in the PIPER receiver
E. R. Switzer, P. A. R. Ade, T. Baildon +30
The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) is a balloon-borne telescope mission to search for inflationary gravitational waves from the early universe. PIPER employs tw…
Astro2020: Astrophotonics White Paper
Pradip Gatkine, Sylvain Veilleux, John Mather +19
Astrophotonics is the application of versatile photonic technologies to channel, manipulate, and disperse guided light from one or more telescopes to achieve scientific objectives…
Principal Component Analysis of Up-the-ramp Sampled IR Array Data
Bernard J. Rauscher, Richard G. Arendt, D. J. Fixsen +3
We describe the results of principal component analysis (PCA) of up-the-ramp sampled IR array data from the HST WFC3 IR, JWST NIRSpec, and prototype WFIRST WFI detectors. These sys…
SOFIA - HIRMES: Looking forward to the HIgh-Resolution Mid-infrarEd Spectrometer
Samuel N. Richards, Samuel H. Moseley, Gordon Stacey +48
The HIgh-Resolution Mid-infrarEd Spectrometer (HIRMES) is the 3rd Generation Instrument for the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), currently in development a…
The Origins Space Telescope
Cara Battersby, Lee Armus, Edwin Bergin +36
The Origins Space Telescope, one of four large Mission Concept studies sponsored by NASA for review in the 2020 US Astrophysics Decadal Survey, will open unprecedented discovery sp…
Development of the Fabry-Perot interferometers for the HIRMES spectrometer on SOFIA
Greg Douthit, Gordon Stacey, Thomas Nikola +5
HIRMES is a far-infrared spectrometer that was chosen as the third generation instrument for NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory. HIRMES promises background limited performance in fo…
Review: Far-Infrared Instrumentation and Technology Development for the Next Decade
Duncan Farrah, Kimberly Ennico Smith, David Ardila +33
Far-infrared astronomy has advanced rapidly since its inception in the late 1950's, driven by a maturing technology base and an expanding community of researchers. This advancement…
Improved Reference Sampling and Subtraction: A Technique for Reducing the Read Noise of Near-infrared Detector Systems
Bernard J. Rauscher, Richard G. Arendt, D. J. Fixsen +9
Near-infrared array detectors, like the \JWST NIRSpec's Teledyne's H2RGs, often provide reference pixels and a reference output. These are used to remove correlated noise. Improved…
Silicon-Based Antenna-Coupled Polarization-Sensitive Millimeter-Wave Bolometer Arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background Instruments
Karwan Rostem, Aamir Ali, John W. Appel +15
We describe feedhorn-coupled polarization-sensitive detector arrays that utilize monocrystalline silicon as the dielectric substrate material. Monocrystalline silicon has a low-los…
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor
Kathleen Harrington, Tobias Marriage, Aamir Ali +33
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a four telescope array designed to characterize relic primordial gravitational waves from inflation and the optical depth to r…
Detectors and cooling technology for direct spectroscopic biosignature characterization
Bernard J. Rauscher, Edgar R. Canavan, S. H. Moseley +2
Direct spectroscopic biosignature characterization (hereafter "biosignature characterization") will be a major focus for future space observatories equipped with coronagraphs or st…
The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER)
Natalie N. Gandilo, Peter A. R. Ade, Dominic Benford +27
The Primordial Inflation Polarization ExploreR (PIPER) is a balloon-borne telescope designed to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background on large angular scales.…
Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Focal Plane Development
D. T. Chuss, A. Ali, M. Amiri +28
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) will measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background to search for and characterize the polarized signature of inflat…
Recovery of Large Angular Scale CMB Polarization for Instruments Employing Variable-delay Polarization Modulators
N. J. Miller, D. T. Chuss, T. A. Marriage +11
Variable-delay Polarization Modulators (VPMs) are currently being implemented in experiments designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background on large angula…