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astro-ph.IM2025★ 6 cited

Extended source fringe flats for the JWST MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer

N. Crouzet, M. Mueller, B. Sargent +17

The detectors of the JWST Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) form low-finesse resonating cavities that cause periodic count rate modulations (fring…

astro-ph.IM2024

The James Webb Space Telescope Absolute Flux Calibration. III. Mid-Infrared Instrument Medium Resolution IFU Spectrometer

David R. Law, Ioannis Argyriou, Karl D. Gordon +7

We describe the spectrophotometric calibration of the Mid-Infrared Instrument's (MIRI) Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This calib…

astro-ph.IM2024

The MIRI/MRS Library I. Empirically correcting detector charge migration in unresolved sources

Danny Gasman, Ioannis Argyriou, Jane E. Morrison +7

The JWST has been collecting scientific data for over two years now. Scientists are now looking deeper into the data, which introduces the need to correct known systematic effects.…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

High-precision astrometry and photometry with the JWST/MIRI imager

M. Libralato, I. Argyriou, D. Dicken +8

Astrometry is one of the main pillars of astronomy, and one of its oldest branches. Over the years, an increasing number of astrometric works by means of Hubble Space Telescope (HS…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 43 cited

JWST MIRI flight performance: Detector Effects and Data Reduction Algorithms

Jane Morrison, Daniel Dicken, Ioannis Argyriou +21

The detectors in the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are arsenic-21 doped silicon impurity band conduction (Si:As IBC) devices and are direc…

astro-ph.IM2023

Geometric distortion and astrometric calibration of the JWST MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer

P. Patapis, I. Argyriou, D. R. Law +12

The Medium-Resolution integral field Spectrometer (MRS) of MIRI on board JWST performs spectroscopy between 5 and 28~m. The optics of the MRS introduce substantial distortion, a…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 152 cited

A 3D Drizzle Algorithm for JWST and Practical Application to the MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer

David R. Law, Jane E. Morrison, Ioannis Argyriou +4

We describe an algorithm for application of the classic `drizzle' technique to produce 3d spectral cubes using data obtained from the slicer-type integral field unit (IFU) spectrom…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 490 cited

The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

Jonathan P. Gardner, John C. Mather, Randy Abbott +1004

Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 35 cited

The Brighter-Fatter Effect in the JWST MIRI Si:As IBC detectors I. Observations, impact on science, and modelling

Ioannis Argyriou, Craig Lage, George H. Rieke +10

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) uses three Si:As impurity band conduction (IBC) detector arrays. The output voltage level of each…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 234 cited

JWST MIRI flight performance: The Medium-Resolution Spectrometer

Ioannis Argyriou, Alistair Glasse, David R. Law +22

The Medium-Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) provides one of the four operating modes of the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The MRS is a…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 28 cited

Observations of the Planetary Nebula SMP LMC 058 with the JWST MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer

O. C. Jones, J. Álvarez-Márquez, G. C. Sloan +21

During the commissioning of {\em JWST}, the Medium-Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) on the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) observed the planetary nebula SMP LMC 058 in the Large Magell…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 440 cited

The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning

Jane Rigby, Marshall Perrin, Michael McElwain +623

This paper characterizes the actual science performance of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as determined from the six month commissioning period. We summarize the performanc…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

Wavelength Calibration and Resolving Power of the JWST MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer

A. Labiano, I. Argyriou, J. Alvarez-Marquez +13

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on-board JWST will provide imaging, coronagraphy, low-resolution spectroscopy and medium-resolution spectroscopy at unprecedented sensitivity lev…

astro-ph.IM2020

Characterization of the optical properties of the buried contact of the JWST MIRI Si:As infrared blocked impurity band detectors

Ioannis Argyriou, George H. Rieke, Michael E. Ressler +2

The Mid-Infrared Instrument MIRI on-board the James Webb Space Telescope uses three Si:As impurity band conduction detector arrays. MIRI medium resolution spectroscopic measurement…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 49 cited

The quantum efficiency and diffractive image artifacts of Si:As IBC mid-IR detector arrays at 5 10 m: Implications for the JWST/MIRI detectors

Andras Gaspar, George H. Rieke, Pierre Guillard +6

Arsenic doped back illuminated blocked impurity band (BIBIB) silicon detectors have advanced near and mid-IR astronomy for over thirty years; they have high quantum efficiency (QE)…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 43 cited

The nature of point source fringes in mid-infrared spectra acquired with the James Webb Space Telescope

Ioannis Argyriou, Martyn Wells, Alistair Glasse +10

The constructive and destructive interference in different layers of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) detector arrays modulate the detected sign…